diff --git a/REQUIRE b/REQUIRE
index 94237c0..9e74e5b 100644
--- a/REQUIRE
+++ b/REQUIRE
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 julia 0.5
+Compat 0.9.5
diff --git a/src/MATLAB.jl b/src/MATLAB.jl
index 55fe50b..6b4b233 100644
--- a/src/MATLAB.jl
+++ b/src/MATLAB.jl
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ __precompile__()
 
 module MATLAB
 
+using Compat.take!
+
 import Base: eltype, close, size, copy, ndims, unsafe_convert
 
 # mxarray
diff --git a/src/engine.jl b/src/engine.jl
index aca4f67..d5b4e1b 100644
--- a/src/engine.jl
+++ b/src/engine.jl
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ function mxcall(session::MSession, mfun::Symbol, nout::Integer, in_args...)
     end
     print(buf, ");")
 
-    stmt = takebuf_string(buf)
+    stmt = String(take!(buf))
 
     # put variables to MATLAB
 
diff --git a/src/mstatements.jl b/src/mstatements.jl
index 094b744..31fecc9 100644
--- a/src/mstatements.jl
+++ b/src/mstatements.jl
@@ -151,5 +151,5 @@ end
 function mstatement(ex::Expr)
     ss = IOBuffer()
     write_mstatement(ss, ex)
-    takebuf_string(ss)
+    String(take!((ss)))
 end