Hi (This could be relevant for all kinds of functions in general, but I’ll give a specific example here). so I’m quite new to julia and currently trying to write a custom package/module with some data loading and processing functionalities for a very specific type of files. I know a bit about pos…

Instead of passing the empty string, you can directly define your default argument value: function onFile(filename::String=choose_user_file()) println("Do something with file ", filename) end

Find out number of function arguments or if passed at all

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rafael.guerra December 20, 2021, 4:12pm 5

This other thread might be of interest.

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Find out number of function arguments or if passed at all

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