The ordering of docstrings in Julia 0.4 is based on the method signatures, which can sometimes not be all that obvious. They are not printed in a random order though. It’s best just to not rely on a specific order in 0.4.
In 0.5 this order has been changed, https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/15266, to the definition order of the docstrings, which should be much less surprising. — Mike On Thursday, 12 May 2016 10:23:16 UTC+2, Igor Cerovsky wrote: > > Hello, > > Trying to write documentation according to Julia manual I've found > following reversed order of methods for given function; is that a bug?: > """ > foo() > > I'm major foo... > """ > function foo() > end > > " > foo(x) > > Here comes additional doc... > " > function foo(x) > end > > resulting documentation looks like: > help?> foo > foo(x) > > Here comes additional doc... > > foo() > > I'm major foo... > > > >
