# What does @kwdef do?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-does-kwdef-do/51973
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [December 17, 2020, 11:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-does-kwdef-do/51973 "2020-12-17T11:59:07Z")
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With Julia 1.9 , Base.@kwdef will be exported, so it is part of the official API, see [julia/NEWS.md at v1.9.0-beta3 · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v1.9.0-beta3/NEWS.md)

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