WARNING: both MeasureTheory and TransformVariables export "as"; uses of it in module Main must be qualified

[jfb-h]

WARNING: both MeasureTheory and TransformVariables export "as"; uses of it in module Main must be qualified

[cscherrer]

It's currently kind of a hack, meant to be temporary.

The as interface is pretty great, and I wanted to be able to extend it easily without type piracy. So MeasureTheory currently has

import TransformVariables
const TV = TransformVariables

as(args...; kwargs...) = TV.as(args...; kwargs...)

I think the current would-be piracy is all for as(::Distribution) methods. Now that we have DistributionMeasures.jl, we could probably get rid of this. But before long, I think we may move away from TransformVariables anyway, for a few reasons:

1. A value drawn from one measure may sometimes affect the support of another. I don't think TV has a way to address this
2. TV uses Int type parameters, but I think we'll want to allow for statically-sized arrays, which can be much more efficient
3. As a personal preference, I'd like transforms to be callable. TV used to have this, but now disallows my_transform(x), instead requiring transform(my_transform, x)

[jfb-h]

I wanted to be able to extend it easily without type piracy

I see, that makes sense. I was trying out MeasureTheory with the LogDensityProblems stack, which was very nice but having to put TV.as everywhere was a bit strange.

Thanks for the heads up!