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Nicky Feller
Nicky Feller

Reputation: 3899

Julia: LoadError: UndefVarError: setrounding not defined

I am following along the "Julia Language Documentation Release 0.5.0-dev" and running some of their demo commands, this one is throwing an error. (reference page 28)

setrounding(BigFloat, RoundDown) do
BigFloat(1) + parse(BigFloat, "0.1")
end

throwing error:

ERROR: UndefVarError: setrounding not defined

but it does not seem like setrounding should be a variable, but a function.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2198

Answers (2)

David P. Sanders
David P. Sanders

Reputation: 5325

In Julia 0.4, there were two different functions, set_rounding to change the rounding mode outright, and with_rounding that you would use in the example you wrote, which changes the rounding mode only temporarily during the given function (in your case, the code in the do...end block).

In Julia 0.5, these were merged into the single setrounding function, that performs both of these tasks, and, in line with the tendency for functions in Base, no longer has an underscore (_).

The discussion about this renaming can be found in the original Pull Request: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/13232

You can also use the new 0.5 syntax even in 0.4, by doing using Compat first; this is the Julia backwards-compatibility module, which in this case will define the setrounding function with the correct behaviour. (You need a version of Compat at least 0.7.11; if you have a previous version, just do a Pkg.update().)

e.g.

julia> using Compat

julia> setrounding(BigFloat, RoundDown)   # 0.5 syntax
3

julia> get_rounding(BigFloat)   # 0.4 syntax -- not advisable to mix these!
RoundingMode{:Down}()

Upvotes: 2

aviks
aviks

Reputation: 2097

If you are working on v0.4, you need to look at the 0.4 docs, rather than the 0.5 docs that you are seeing. At the bottom right of the page, you will see a little black box with a green arrow. Click it, and select the version of the documentation you want.

In this particular case, the name of this function has changed between 0.4 (the latest release) and 0.5 (the current development).

version selector

Upvotes: 4

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