Julia 1.0 Programming Complete Reference Guide

Using article types

We can refactor our code to eliminate the generic Dict data structure and represent our articles with specialized Article composite types.

Let's create a new file in our sixdegrees/ work folder, and name it Articles.jl. Edit the file by typing in the corresponding module declaration. Then, add the definition of our type and export it:

module Articles 
 
export Article 
 
struct Article 
  content::String 
  links::Vector{String} 
  title::String 
  image::String 
end 
 
end 

We could've added the Article type definition to the Wikipedia.jl file, but chances are this will grow and it's better to keep them separated instead.

Another thing to note is that both the module and the type are Julia entities that are loaded in the same scope. For this ...