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Double Colon Operator

Description

Accessing exported variables in a name space.

Usage

pkg::name

Arguments

pkg

package name symbol or string literal.

name

variable name symbol or string literal.

Details

The expression pkg::name returns the value of the exported variable name in package pkg if the package has a name space. The package will be loaded if it was not loaded already before the call. Assignment into name spaces is not supported.

Examples

base::log
base::"+"

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