range(start, stop; length, step)

README.md

@@ -358,6 +358,9 @@ Currently, the `@compat` macro supports the following syntaxes:
 
 * `repmat` is now `repeat` ([#26039])
 
+* `range` supports `range(start, stop; length, step)` (`stop` as positional argument)
+  for Julia 0.7 and 1.0. ([#28708])
+
 ## New macros
 
 * `@vectorize_1arg` and `@vectorize_2arg` are deprecated on Julia 0.6 in favor

src/Compat.jl

@@ -1527,6 +1527,9 @@ end
             return linspace(start, stop, length)
         end
     end
+elseif VERSION < v"1.0.0-DEV.57"
+    import LinRange
+    range(start; kwargs...) = Base.range(start; kwargs...)
 else
     import Base: range, LinRange
 end
@@ -1839,6 +1842,10 @@ if VERSION < v"0.7.0-beta2.143"
     end
 end
 
+if VERSION ≤ v"1.0" || isempty(methods(range, Tuple{Any,Any}))
+    range(start, stop; kwargs...) = range(start; stop=stop, kwargs...)
+end
+
 include("deprecated.jl")
 
 end # module Compat

test/runtests.jl

@@ -1518,4 +1518,10 @@ end
                                    3  4  3  4  3  4]
 @test repeat([1, 2], 1, 2, 3) == [x for x in 1:2, y in 1:2, z in 1:3]
 
+# [1.0, 1.1)
+if v"0.7" ≤ VERSION && isempty(methods(range, Tuple{Any,Any}))
+    @test range(0, 5, length = 6) == 0.0:1.0:5.0
+    @test range(0, 10, step = 2) == 0:2:10
+end
+
 nothing