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Hello,

I am executing the following function, and it should only accept Int64 as the argument. However, I find that it does not throw an error when any other data types like float is used. Can anyone pls clarify? C is a dataframe with two columns
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function num_lang(year::Int64)
** boo=C[:,:year].==year**
** return(count(boo))**
end

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Probably you are in a running Julia session where you previously defined a version of num_lang that didn’t have the type restriction, and it’s still in memory, so the old version is being called instead of num_lang(::Int). Restart Julia and it should work as expected.

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I agree with the answer of stevengj… most likely you had already defined a more broad version of num_lang.

If you try on a new Julia session you will see that the version you posted “accepts” only integer parameters, throwing a MethodError otherwise:

julia> function num_lang(year::Int64)
         println("I am in num_lang(::Int64)")
       end
num_lang (generic function with 1 method)

julia> num_lang("one")
ERROR: MethodError: no method matching num_lang(::String)

Closest candidates are:
  num_lang(::Int64)
   @ Main REPL[1]:1

Stacktrace:
 [1] top-level scope
   @ REPL[2]:1

julia> num_lang(1)
I am in num_lang(::Int64)
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