Thank you, that's helpful. 
I reentered it all in a fresh session and found it working as well - I'll 
try and find the difference which caused it not to work and come back.
Kind Regards, John.

On Sunday, November 9, 2014 8:22:44 AM UTC, Ivar Nesje wrote:
>
> This code works everywhere I'm able to try it. 
>
> kl. 03:18:13 UTC+1 søndag 9. november 2014 skrev John Drummond følgende:
>>
>> I was originally julia 0.3.1 on windows 7
>> this is on Macosx 10 julia 0.3.2
>> I loaded the file LogParse.jl below and then in the repl ran
>>
>> reload("LogParse.jl")
>>
>> methods(isless)
>>
>>
>> ary1 = LogParse.DayPriceText[]
>> push!(ary1,LogParse.DayPriceText(4,"a1",1))
>> push!(ary1,LogParse.DayPriceText(2,"a1",1))
>> push!(ary1,LogParse.DayPriceText(6,"a1",1))
>>
>>
>> sort(ary1)
>>
>> sort(ary1,lt=LogParse.isless)
>> I get the same messages - methods(isless) shows that it's loaded
>> but the sort can't find it, even when I try to specify the function
>>
>>
>> #in file LogParse.jl ###########
>> module LogParse
>> export DayPriceText
>> import Base.isless
>>
>> type DayPriceText
>>   a1::Uint32
>>   b1::ASCIIString
>>   a2::Uint32
>> end
>>
>> function isless(a::DayPriceText, b::DayPriceText)
>>   if (a.a1 < b.a1)
>>     return true
>>   else
>>     return false
>>   end
>> end
>>
>>
>> end
>> ######
>>
>> Many thanks.
>> Kind regards, John
>>
>>
>> On Friday, November 7, 2014 7:34:40 PM UTC, Ivar Nesje wrote:
>>>
>>> In this case it would be really great if you had a minimal reproducible 
>>> example. It looks to me as you are doing everything right, so I would start 
>>> looking for typos and scoping issues. It's hard to find them without 
>>> looking at the code.
>>>
>>> Ideally the example should be small and possible to paste into a REPL 
>>> session, but if you can publish your code and don't want to extract only 
>>> the relevant part, that might be fine too.
>>>
>>> Julia version and operating system is also nice to include, so that we 
>>> have it available in case we have problems reproducing your results.
>>>
>>> Regards Ivar
>>>
>>> kl. 20:14:48 UTC+1 fredag 7. november 2014 skrev John Drummond følgende:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I suspect I'm doing something stupid but no idea what I'm missing.
>>>>
>>>> I create a module .
>>>> I create a type in it, DayPriceText
>>>> I import Base.isless
>>>> I define isless for the type
>>>>
>>>> now in the repl I get
>>>>
>>>> methods(isless)
>>>> =>
>>>> # 25 methods for generic function "isless":
>>>> ......
>>>> isless(x::DayPriceText,y::DayPriceText) at 
>>>> c:\works\juliaplay\LogParse.jl:16
>>>>
>>>> but
>>>>
>>>> julia> typeof(a1p)
>>>> Array{DayPriceText,1}
>>>>
>>>> julia> sort(a1p, lt=CILogParse.isless)
>>>> ERROR: `isless` has no method matching isless(::DayPriceText, 
>>>> ::DayPriceText)
>>>>  in sort! at sort.jl:246
>>>>
>>>> julia> sort(a1p)
>>>> ERROR: `isless` has no method matching isless(::DayPriceText, 
>>>> ::DayPriceText)
>>>>  in sort! at sort.jl:246
>>>>
>>>> I'm sure there's some obvious answer, but I've not idea what.
>>>> Thanks for any help
>>>> kind regards, John.
>>>>
>>>>

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