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Function name `scatter` conflics

Open mkborregaard opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

The function name scatter in DistributedArrays conflicts with the scatter function in, say, 80% of all julia's plotting packages (for making scatter plots). Would it be possible to rename to something unambiguous, such as distribute?

mkborregaard avatar Oct 02 '18 06:10 mkborregaard

It's a pretty standard parallel computing concept/function though. I think a solution could be not to export the SPMD functions from the DistributedArrays module. Then this will only become an issue when people use DistributedArrays.SPMD.

andreasnoack avatar Oct 04 '18 13:10 andreasnoack

Yes I think the SPMD code might actually be a good example for a separate package, (but still in the same repository.)

vchuravy avatar Oct 04 '18 14:10 vchuravy