I’m trying to understand why the compiler produces an error when you try to change a field of a mutable struct after a “”" comment “”". I tried to reduce this to the minimum possible code that reproduces this error, : mutable struct teststruct a::Float64 b::String end testinstance = te…

This is a doc-string, which tries to attach the doc to something but fails and thus errors. Use # for comments.

thanks for clarifying, missed that in the manual and assumed Python-like behavior, my mistake :slight_smile:

Struct field change bug - can't understand why?

thofma February 27, 2018, 8:42pm 2

Because that is not a comment.

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