> but my function names are constantly colliding with built-in ones I'm sure you know this, but the casual drive-by reader may not. Functions with the same na

> but my function names are constantly colliding with built-in ones I'm sure you know this, but the casual drive-by reader may not. Functions with the same name aren't a collision. The parameter types of your function and a builtin of the same name all have to match in order for there to be a collision. In julia "module" introduces a namespace: http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual/modules/ http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual/modules/