ERROR: unsupported or misplaced expression using

Question

I'm working on a mac (OS X El Capitan), and I have an unregistered julia package called ME-Private.jl (that's how it's labeled on github) that I want to debug in the Julia REPL. I cloned this package into /Users/myname/.julia/v0.4, where the rest of my packages reside. All my packages work and I have a mix of registered and unregistered packages. Now, when I typed

Pkg.clone("url", "ME-Private")

in the Julia REPL, it cloned just like I wanted into the v0.4 directory. However, when I start up Julia again, I type

using ME-Private

and it passes me the following error.

ERROR: unsupported or misplaced expression using

My hypothesis is that there is a problem with having a - in the title of a package, but that's how the repository is named (of which I'm not author), and I'm aware that ideally the packages are named identically to the repos which they are local versions of.

That being said, I have tried renaming the package MEPrivate to avoid the - issue and MEPrivate still shows up in the list of packages returned by Pkg.status(), but when I type

using MEPrivate

it passes the following error

ERROR: ArgumentError: MEPrivate not found in path
 in require at /Applications/Julia-0.4.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib

even though Pkg.status() returns a list of packages including MEPrivate!

My two questions are:

1. Is it bad practice to have a - in the title of an online or local repo of this nature (or a .jl, while we're on the subject of titles)?
2. How do I fix this??

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Yes, it is bad to have - in the title of a package!

Try

@eval using $(Symbol("ME-Private"))

but get the package author to fix the problem.