Overwriting methods in Base is a bad idea. This will affect all usages of the function, not just the ones in your module. You can have your own function called rand() instead.
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Matt Bauman <[email protected]> wrote: > Note the warning message you get upon trying to define Base.rand(): > Warning: Method definition rand() in module Random at random.jl:195 > overwritten in module Main at none:1 > > You're not shadowing rand; you're totally overwriting one of its main > methods. I agree with Tom that you should probably use a different name, > but if you really wanted to, you could actually shadow the name: > > julia> rand() = Base.rand() + 1 # Note that this will only work if you > haven't used Base.rand in your module or session yet. > rand (generic function with 1 method) > > julia> rand() > 1.9306557841053391 > > julia> Base.rand() > 0.8691479006333791 > > > On Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 3:07:30 PM UTC-4, Deniz Yuret wrote: > >> Say we import and redefine a function from Base. Is it possible to >> access the form of the function before the redefinition? >> >> Here is an example of what I am trying to do (which doesn't work): >> >> rand_orig = rand >> Base.rand()=(rand_orig() + 1) >> >>
