The answer was a misplaced get definition in a module which was not prefixed by Base
workspace() module mess get() = 1 function foo() dict = Dict{String,Float64}() dict["hello"] = 1.23 get( dict, "hello", 2.3) end export foo end using mess foo() On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 12:43:46 PM UTC-4, Michael Francis wrote: > > If I locally define > > function myget{K,V}(h::Dict{K,V}, key, default) > index = Base.ht_keyindex(h, key) > return (index<0) ? default : h.vals[index]::V > end > > and change my code to use this myget it all works fine. So it looks like > the function resolution on get has lost the plot ? > > On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 11:30:18 AM UTC-4, Michael Francis wrote: >> >> After moving some code around I get the following error - I don't have a >> small test case >> >> ERROR: `get` has no method matching get(::Dict{WeakRef,CalcState}, >> ::WeakRef, :: CalcState) >> >> It looks like the type system is getting confused ? Any pointers in how >> to resolve ? >> >