Elseif, ellse, why read(stdin,Char) not works in Julia 0.7?

General Usage
1

Why not works else take() after enter ‘s’ to take()

function take()
global agreement=read(stdin,Char)
end

take()
s

if agreement=='y' ; 
elseif agreement=='n' ; 
else take()
end
2

Works for me

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julia> function take()
       println("Now inside function take()")
       global agreement=read(stdin,Char)
       end
take (generic function with 1 method)

julia> take()
Now inside function take()
s
's': ASCII/Unicode U+0073 (category Ll: Letter, lowercase)

julia> if agreement=='y' ; 
              elseif agreement=='n' ; 
              else take()
              end
Now inside function take()
g
'g': ASCII/Unicode U+0067 (category Ll: Letter, lowercase)
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https://github.com/JunoLab/Juno.jl/issues/118

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