# Cannot document @everywhere function
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-document-everywhere-function/54044
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** documentation, distributed
**Created:** [January 27, 2021, 9:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-document-everywhere-function/54044 "2021-01-27T09:24:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@matthiasbe](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/matthiasbe)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 9:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-document-everywhere-function/54044/1 "2021-01-27T09:24:14Z")
It seems I can not document and put the `@everywhere` annotation at the same time.
The following code
```julia
"""
Prints something
"""
@everywhere function my_func()
println("hello")
end
```
throws the error
```julia
ERROR: LoadError: cannot document the following expression:
#= /path/test.jl:4 =# @everywhere function my_func()
#= /path/test.jl:4 =#
#= /path/test.jl:5 =#
println("hello")
end
'@everywhere' not documentable. See 'Base.@ __doc__' docs for details.
Stacktrace:
[1] error(::String, ::String) at ./error.jl:42
[2] top-level scope at /path/test.jl:1
[3] include(::String) at ./client.jl:457
[4] top-level scope at REPL[8]:1
in expression starting at /path/test.jl:1
```
Is there a workaround for this ?
---
### Author:  [@mauro3](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mauro3)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 9:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-document-everywhere-function/54044/2 "2021-01-27T09:54:19Z")
I think you can do:
```julia
julia> f(x) = 1
f (generic function with 1 method)
julia> @everywhere f
```
But please report is as bug at [Issues · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues), if it hasn’t yet been reported.
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### Author:  [@matthiasbe](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/matthiasbe)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 10:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-document-everywhere-function/54044/3 "2021-01-27T10:03:47Z")
@mauro3 I can’t get this to work. In this case the function is not defined on the remote worker.
I use this script
```julia
"""
Prints something
"""
function my_func()
println("hello")
end
@everywhere my_func
@fetchfrom workers()[1] my_func()
```
And it gives
```julia
ERROR: LoadError: On worker 2:
UndefVarError: my_func not defined
```
I execute this with `julia -p 4` and `include("test.jl")`
I created the [issue](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/39417) on github btw
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### Author:  [@pbayer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pbayer)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 10:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-document-everywhere-function/54044/4 "2021-01-27T10:23:52Z")
you can try to separate docstring declaration from function definition like that:
```julia
"""
Prints something
"""
function my_func end
@everywhere my_func()
println("hello")
end
```
---
### Author:  [@matthiasbe](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/matthiasbe)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 10:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-document-everywhere-function/54044/5 "2021-01-27T10:27:56Z")
@pbayer This works, thank you !
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### Author:  [@fbanning](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fbanning)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 1:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-document-everywhere-function/54044/6 "2021-01-27T13:43:48Z")
You can simply write:
```julia
@everywhere """
DOCSTRING
"""
function foo()
println("hello")
end
```
And it should work perfectly fine.
Also you can wrap your code in `begin...end` blocks like this:
```julia
@everywhere begin
"""
DOCSTRING
"""
function foo()
println("hello")
end
end
```