Project Organization

Mélodium projects are organized through a root folder, containing a Compo.toml file, and .mel files.

my_project/
├── Compo.toml
├── baz.mel
├── foo
│   └── bar.mel
├── foo.mel
└── main.mel

Areas

In Mélodium, an area is an element location. It is a concept similar to Rust modules or Java locations.

An area is materialized by a .mel file, that contains all its elements. Subareas are made using a folder having the area name, and creating .mel files inside.

my_project/
├── Compo.toml
├── baz.mel
├── foo     # folder for subareas
│   └── bar.mel
├── foo.mel # area
└── main.mel

In this example, the foo area is developed within the foo.mel file, and bar area is located within the foo/ folder to be a subarea of foo. They can respectively be called through:

• root/foo::<element>
• root/foo/bar::<element>

Current project references

In Mélodium, project code can refer to its own content using the root and local keywords, and do not use the name of the project itself.

In the example, to refer an element that is present in the baz area, the call root/baz::<element> must be used. Similarly, if foo area refers to something within bar, local/bar::<element> could be written.