Hi all, I am a relative newcomer to this version of Julia, so sorry for the (maybe) obvious question. I have the problem, that I define multiple methods of a function in an interactive session (IJulia to be precise) in Julia v1.0.0 and I would like to delete some of those methods. Is there any wa…

julia> f(x::Integer) = 2 f (generic function with 1 method) julia> f(x::Int) = 3 f (generic function with 2 methods) julia> f(1) 3 julia> m = @which f(1) f(x::Int64) in Main at REPL[2]:1 julia> typeof(m) Method julia> Base.delete_method(m) julia> f(1) 2

Oh, great. Thank you very much!

However, consider using Revise which uses this to automatically keep your REPL session up to date with your code on disk.

Not really important, but the name seems a little un-idiomatic: delete_method(::Method). Why isn’t it just delete(::Method) or delete!(::Method)?

Internal names—which this is since it’s not exported—often have underscores and longer more specific names.

Deleting methods in julia

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Janis_Erdmanis August 14, 2018, 8:44pm 6

Is it possible to delete a type in a similar way?

Does importing a module load all methods defined in that module?

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