use(Package) -- activate a previously dismissed package

Synopsis

• Usage:

  use PACKAGENAME

• Function: use
• Inputs:

  • PACKAGENAME, a package, which was previously loaded, and then dismissed.
• Consequences:

  • activates the package, making all of its exported symbols visible.

Description

i1 : loadPackage "FirstPackage"

o1 = FirstPackage

o1 : Package

i2 : firstFunction

o2 = firstFunction

o2 : MethodFunction

i3 : dismiss FirstPackage

i4 : firstFunction 

o4 = firstFunction

o4 : Symbol

i5 : use FirstPackage

i6 : firstFunction

o6 = firstFunction

o6 : MethodFunction

See also

• loadPackage -- load a package
• dismiss(Package) -- dismiss a package
• FirstPackage -- an example Macaulay 2 package