# Help for Base.invokelatest may be broken

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-for-base-invokelatest-may-be-broken/6546>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [October 19, 2017, 4:58am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-for-base-invokelatest-may-be-broken/6546 "2017-10-19T04:58:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ArchieCall](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/archiecall/32/206_2.png) [@ArchieCall](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ArchieCall)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 4:58am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-for-base-invokelatest-may-be-broken/6546/1 "2017-10-19T04:58:39Z")

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I am not sure whether this is a documentation error.

Help for `Base.invokelatest` works, but throws error for just `invokelatest`!

```julia
help?> invokelatest
search:

Couldn't find invokelatest
Perhaps you meant invoke
  No documentation found.

  Binding invokelatest does not exist.

help?> Base.invokelatest
  invokelatest(f, args...)

  Calls f(args...), but guarantees that the most recent method of f will be
  executed. This is useful in specialized circumstances, e.g. long-running
  event loops or callback functions that may call obsolete versions of a
  function f. (The drawback is that invokelatest is somewhat slower than
  calling f directly, and the type of the result cannot be inferred by the
  compiler.)

julia>

```

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**Author:** ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 5:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-for-base-invokelatest-may-be-broken/6546/2 "2017-10-19T05:26:20Z")

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`invokelatest` is not exported, so this is intended.

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**Author:** ![ArchieCall](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/archiecall/32/206_2.png) [@ArchieCall](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ArchieCall)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 5:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-for-base-invokelatest-may-be-broken/6546/3 "2017-10-19T05:33:40Z")

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Thanks for clarifying.