String not defined

[Ph0non]

First I thought this is an error in DataFrames, but this error also occurs loading other packages.

I'm using julia0.4 and latest available version from DataFrames via Pkg.update() but can't load DataFrames anymore.

julia> using DataFrames
ERROR: String not defined
 in include at ./boot.jl:242
 in include_from_node1 at ./loading.jl:128
 in include at ./boot.jl:242
 in include_from_node1 at ./loading.jl:128
 in reload_path at ./loading.jl:152
 in _require at ./loading.jl:67
 in require at ./loading.jl:54
 in require at /home/martin/julia/usr/bin/../lib/julia/sys.so
 in include at ./boot.jl:242
 in include_from_node1 at ./loading.jl:128
 in reload_path at ./loading.jl:152
 in _require at ./loading.jl:67
 in require at ./loading.jl:51
 in require at /home/martin/julia/usr/bin/../lib/julia/sys.so
while loading /home/martin/.julia/v0.4/DataArrays/src/natype.jl, in expression starting on line 24
while loading /home/martin/.julia/v0.4/DataArrays/src/DataArrays.jl, in expression starting on line 57
while loading /home/martin/.julia/v0.4/DataFrames/src/DataFrames.jl, in expression starting on line 13

also

julia> using SQLite

WARNING: deprecated syntax "{}" at /home/martin/.julia/v0.4/SQLite/src/SQLite.jl:36.
Use "[]" instead.

WARNING: deprecated syntax "[a=>b, ...]" at /home/martin/.julia/v0.4/SQLite/src/SQLite_consts.jl:109.
Use "Dict(a=>b, ...)" instead.
ERROR: String not defined
 in include at ./boot.jl:242
 in include_from_node1 at ./loading.jl:128
 in include at ./boot.jl:242
 in include_from_node1 at ./loading.jl:128
 in reload_path at ./loading.jl:152
 in _require at ./loading.jl:67
 in require at ./loading.jl:51
 in require at /home/martin/julia/usr/bin/../lib/julia/sys.so
while loading /home/martin/.julia/v0.4/SQLite/src/SQLite_consts.jl, in expression starting on line 109
while loading /home/martin/.julia/v0.4/SQLite/src/SQLite.jl, in expression starting on line 10

also

julia> using JuMP

WARNING: deprecated syntax "{}" at /home/martin/.julia/v0.4/Calculus/src/symbolic.jl:108.
Use "[]" instead.

WARNING: deprecated syntax "{}" at /home/martin/.julia/v0.4/Calculus/src/symbolic.jl:121.
Use "[]" instead.

WARNING: deprecated syntax "{a,b, ...}" at /home/martin/.julia/v0.4/Calculus/src/differentiate.jl:41.
Use "Any[a,b, ...]" instead.

WARNING: deprecated syntax "{a,b, ...}" at /home/martin/.julia/v0.4/Calculus/src/differentiate.jl:58.
Use "Any[a,b, ...]" instead.
ERROR: String not defined
 in include at ./boot.jl:242
 in include_from_node1 at ./loading.jl:128
 in include at ./boot.jl:242
 in include_from_node1 at ./loading.jl:128
 in reload_path at ./loading.jl:152
 in _require at ./loading.jl:67
 in require at ./loading.jl:54
 in require at /home/martin/julia/usr/bin/../lib/julia/sys.so
 in include at ./boot.jl:242
 in include_from_node1 at ./loading.jl:128
 in reload_path at ./loading.jl:152
 in _require at ./loading.jl:67
 in require at ./loading.jl:54
 in require at /home/martin/julia/usr/bin/../lib/julia/sys.so
 in include at ./boot.jl:242
 in include_from_node1 at ./loading.jl:128
 in reload_path at ./loading.jl:152
 in _require at ./loading.jl:67
 in require at ./loading.jl:51
 in require at /home/martin/julia/usr/bin/../lib/julia/sys.so
while loading /home/martin/.julia/v0.4/Calculus/src/differentiate.jl, in expression starting on line 255
while loading /home/martin/.julia/v0.4/Calculus/src/Calculus.jl, in expression starting on line 60
while loading /home/martin/.julia/v0.4/ReverseDiffSparse/src/ReverseDiffSparse.jl, in expression starting on line 3
while loading /home/martin/.julia/v0.4/JuMP/src/JuMP.jl, in expression starting on line 11

and so on.

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 0.4.0-dev+1410
Commit 83c2624* (2014-11-04 16:34 UTC)
Platform Info:
  System: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4010U CPU @ 1.70GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  BLAS: libopenblas (USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Haswell)
  LAPACK: libopenblas
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-3.4

[jiahao]

These are package-specific issues caused by a recent change (#8872) to Julia.

Julia 0.4 is being developed actively and is not yet stable enough for use by most users. Most users should stick to 0.3.x point releases or the release-0.3 branch.

[Ph0non]

I pulled the latest commit and now it all works fine.

[ivarne]

The String issue was fixed in 3c7b6db with a proper deprecation