# Extended function not being seen (Is explicity imported)

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/extended-function-not-being-seen-is-explicity-imported/51200>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [December 3, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/extended-function-not-being-seen-is-explicity-imported/51200 "2020-12-03T14:49:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/extended-function-not-being-seen-is-explicity-imported/51200/6 "2020-12-03T16:30:22Z")

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Ok, good to know. It still might be worth opening an issue–throwing a `MethodError` without an explanation is pretty confusing (and incorrect anyway), and I’m sure you’re neither the first nor the last person to be bitten by this.

This is quite similar to another questionable behavior in Julia Base: [Cannot find overloaded method - #7 by GunnarFarneback](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-find-overloaded-method/48633/7)

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