# Nullables (moved out of Base) seems to be broken on master

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nullables-moved-out-of-base-seems-to-be-broken-on-master/8340
**Category:** Internals & Design
**Created:** [January 13, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nullables-moved-out-of-base-seems-to-be-broken-on-master/8340 "2018-01-13T14:31:08Z")
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### Author: ![ScottPJones](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/scottpjones/32/146_2.png) [@ScottPJones](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ScottPJones)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nullables-moved-out-of-base-seems-to-be-broken-on-master/8340/1 "2018-01-13T14:31:08Z")

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Is this a known issue? We have code that uses `Nullable` on v0.6, that I’m trying to make work on v0.7 as well.

```julia
ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: UndefVarError: scalarmin not defined
Stacktrace:
 [1] getproperty(::Module, ::Symbol) at ./sysimg.jl:14
 [2] top-level scope
 [3] include at ./boot.jl:292 [inlined]
 [4] include_relative(::Module, ::String) at ./loading.jl:521
 [5] include at ./sysimg.jl:26 [inlined]
 [6] include(::String) at /Users/scott/.julia/v0.7/Nullables/src/Nullables.jl:1
 [7] top-level scope at /Users/scott/.julia/v0.7/Nullables/src/Nullables.jl:4
 [8] include at ./boot.jl:292 [inlined]
 [9] include_relative(::Module, ::String) at ./loading.jl:521
 [10] include(::Module, ::String) at ./sysimg.jl:26
 [11] top-level scope
 [12] eval at ./boot.jl:295 [inlined]
 [13] top-level scope at ./<missing>:2
in expression starting at /Users/scott/.julia/v0.7/Nullables/src/nullable.jl:394
in expression starting at /Users/scott/.julia/v0.7/Nullables/src/Nullables.jl:4
ERROR: LoadError: Failed to precompile Nullables to /Users/scott/.julia/lib/v0.7/Nullables.ji.

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### Author: ![nalimilan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nalimilan/32/147_2.png) [@nalimilan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nalimilan)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nullables-moved-out-of-base-seems-to-be-broken-on-master/8340/2 "2018-01-13T14:38:12Z")

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That’s supposed to be fixed in the last release: [https://github.com/JuliaArchive/Nullables.jl/pull/10](https://github.com/JuliaArchive/Nullables.jl/pull/10)

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### Author: ![ScottPJones](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/scottpjones/32/146_2.png) [@ScottPJones](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ScottPJones)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2018, 2:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nullables-moved-out-of-base-seems-to-be-broken-on-master/8340/3 "2018-01-13T14:40:00Z")

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OK, thanks! - I mistakenly thought Nullables had moved to stdlib, not all the way out to `JuliaArchive` (the dustbin of history! 😂)

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### Author: ![lobingera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lobingera/32/211_2.png) [@lobingera](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lobingera)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nullables-moved-out-of-base-seems-to-be-broken-on-master/8340/4 "2018-01-13T14:43:35Z")

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[https://pkg.julialang.org/](https://pkg.julialang.org/) exists

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### Author: ![ScottPJones](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/scottpjones/32/146_2.png) [@ScottPJones](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ScottPJones)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nullables-moved-out-of-base-seems-to-be-broken-on-master/8340/5 "2018-01-13T14:50:04Z")

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> [@lobingera](#):
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> [https://pkg.julialang.org/](https://pkg.julialang.org/) exists

Yes, but that only helps if you know that it’s not part of Base (or stdlib).

(and the changes around `Nullable`, `Missing`, `Nothing`, `Void` etc. are happening so fast and furious, it’s a bit hard to keep up! 😀)

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### Author: ![lobingera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lobingera/32/211_2.png) [@lobingera](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lobingera)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nullables-moved-out-of-base-seems-to-be-broken-on-master/8340/6 "2018-01-13T15:50:35Z")

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… and there is a search function in github, the stdlib code is in the repository and some people even recommend this search page of this big advertising company (google or something like this) …

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### Author: ![ScottPJones](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/scottpjones/32/146_2.png) [@ScottPJones](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ScottPJones)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nullables-moved-out-of-base-seems-to-be-broken-on-master/8340/7 "2018-01-13T15:57:34Z")

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It just changed in the last 20 hours, OK?

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### Author: ![nalimilan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nalimilan/32/147_2.png) [@nalimilan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nalimilan)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nullables-moved-out-of-base-seems-to-be-broken-on-master/8340/8 "2018-01-13T16:02:37Z")

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Guys, keep calm, everything is well and the package works.

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### Author: ![nalimilan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nalimilan/32/147_2.png) [@nalimilan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nalimilan)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nullables-moved-out-of-base-seems-to-be-broken-on-master/8340/9 "2018-01-13T16:03:54Z")

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