Arguments, unexpected behavior

General Usage
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https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/30252
https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/functions/#Optional-Arguments-1

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julia> function Date(y::Int64, m::Int64=1, d::Int64=1)
           err = validargs(Date, y, m, d)
               err === nothing || throw(err)
                   return Date(UTD(totaldays(y, m, d)))
                   end
Date (generic function with 3 methods)


julia> Date(2000, 12, 12)
ERROR: UndefVarError: validargs not defined
Stacktrace:
 [1] Date(::Int64, ::Int64, ::Int64) at .\REPL[1]:2
 [2] top-level scope at none:0

julia> function Re_Date(y::Int64, m::Int64=1, d::Int64=1)
           err = validargs(Re_Date, y, m, d)
               err === nothing || throw(err)
                   return Re_Date(UTD(totaldays(y, m, d)))
                   end
Re_Date (generic function with 3 methods)

julia> Re_Date(2000, 12, 12)
ERROR: UndefVarError: validargs not defined
Stacktrace:
 [1] Re_Date(::Int64, ::Int64, ::Int64) at .\REPL[3]:2
 [2] top-level scope at none:0

julia> Re_Date(2000, 12)
ERROR: UndefVarError: validargs not defined
Stacktrace:
 [1] Re_Date(::Int64, ::Int64, ::Int64) at .\REPL[3]:2 (repeats 2 times)
 [2] top-level scope at none:0

julia>

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 0.7.0
Commit a4cb80f3ed (2018-08-08 06:46 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-6.0.0 (ORCJIT, haswell)
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It looks like that section of the manual is a bit out-of-date. You’ll need:

using Dates

and you’ll need to replace validargs with Dates.validargs.

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It looks like those functions, like validargs, are not exported from the Dates module. This works:

julia> function Date(y::Int64, m::Int64=1, d::Int64=1)
           err = Dates.validargs(Date, y, m, d)
           err === nothing || throw(err)
           return Date(Dates.UTD(Dates.totaldays(y, m, d)))
       end
Date

julia> Date(2000)
2000-01-01

I think you weren’t intended to actually run the function Date code. It’s just showing you how the method was defined in the Dates module. The code works fine if you don’t run it.

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Here is the current status of: “Dates.validargs()”

using Dates
function Date(y::Int64, m::Int64=1, d::Int64=1)
    err = Dates.validargs(Date, y, m, d)
    err === nothing || throw(err)
    return Date(UTD(totaldays(y, m, d)))
end
Date(2000, 12, 12)

Throws:

ERROR: MethodError: no method matching validargs(::typeof(Date), ::Int64, ::Int64, ::Int64)
[...]

versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.7.2

Any ideas?

5

Getting same error in version 1.8.5. Any thoughts?
MethodError: no method matching validargs(::typeof(Date), ::Int64, ::Int64, ::Int64) Closest candidates are: