Re: [julia-users] Can't overwrite some methods in 0.5.0

2016-10-20 Thread Alex Mellnik
Thanks, after seeing https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/265#issuecomment-243056854 I have a better idea of what's going on and why it doesn't occur in 0.5. On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 11:59:08 PM UTC-7, Yichao Yu wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Alex Mellnik

Re: [julia-users] Can't overwrite some methods in 0.5.0

2016-10-20 Thread Kristoffer Carlsson
myfunc = a -> begin println("Hey") return sum(a) end

Re: [julia-users] Can't overwrite some methods in 0.5.0

2016-10-20 Thread Andre Bieler
myfunc should return sum(abs(a)) to make actual sense, but this does not matter for the problem I have

Re: [julia-users] Can't overwrite some methods in 0.5.0

2016-10-20 Thread Andre Bieler
> > I guess I have a similar problem, when using Optim.jl in a IJulia notebook > using Optim function myfunc(a) println("Hey") return abs(a) end x0 = [1.,2.,3.] res = optimize(myfunc, x0, iterations=20, method=BFGS()) Now when I redefine myfun() the changes do not propagate through

Re: [julia-users] Can't overwrite some methods in 0.5.0

2016-10-20 Thread Yichao Yu
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Alex Mellnik wrote: > Yichao, > > I'm afraid I'm not following -- could you expand on that a bit? Thanks, > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/265 > > Alex > > On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 4:41:30 PM UTC-7, Yichao Yu wrote:

Re: [julia-users] Can't overwrite some methods in 0.5.0

2016-10-19 Thread Alex Mellnik
Yichao, I'm afraid I'm not following -- could you expand on that a bit? Thanks, Alex On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 4:41:30 PM UTC-7, Yichao Yu wrote: > > On Oct 19, 2016 7:26 PM, "Alex Mellnik" > wrote: > > > > Here's my bizarre find of the day. Most functions can

Re: [julia-users] Can't overwrite some methods in 0.5.0

2016-10-19 Thread Yichao Yu
On Oct 19, 2016 7:26 PM, "Alex Mellnik" wrote: > > Here's my bizarre find of the day. Most functions can be overwritten without problems: > > function add7(i) > 7 + i > end > Out[1]: > add7 (generic function with 1 method) > In [2]: > > add7(0) > add7(0) > Out[2]: > 7

[julia-users] Can't overwrite some methods in 0.5.0

2016-10-19 Thread Alex Mellnik
Here's my bizarre find of the day. Most functions can be overwritten without problems: function add7(i) 7 + i end Out[1]: add7 (generic function with 1 method) In [2]: add7(0) add7(0) Out[2]: 7 In [3]: function add7(i) 9 + i end function add7(i) 9 + i end Out[3]: add7 (generic