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by trollerator23 807 days ago
Are all names in Mathematica really all together in a single namespace? Seems odd not to have such a specific function like SolarEclipse behind some kind of importable module.

And how do I discover what functions I want?

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> Are all names in Mathematica really all together in a single namespace?

No, there are package namespaces (Contexts) like most languages. When you import a package (call Needs) it adds that package’s namespace to the namespace path ($ContextPath).

I mean when you run it it downloads it.