Extended Imports Section
The Extends
keyword begins the extended imports section. The contents of this section are zero or more import specifications separated by commas ,
(U+002C)
. Any name imported through an import specification is made available for local use in the module body. An extended imports section differs from a private imports section in but a single way: any name imported through an import specification is also re-exported for use by downstream modules.
Here is an example from the tutorial series:
Via the private imports section, RPN
imports every name exported from Avail
for private use. Via the extended imports section, it re-exports the basic arithmetic operators under six new names. Because the custom import rules list does not end with a horizontal ellipsis …
(U+2026)
, no other names are re-exported.
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