Hi All, I like the recently introduced ScopedValue type, but found myself wanting to be able to change it’s default value persistently outside of ScopedValues.with calls. An example for this is that in GitHub - JuliaPluto/PlutoPlotly.jl I default to converting all numbers to Float32 to speed up an…

One of the central premises of ScopedValue is that you observe the same value inside the scoped value as long as you have not executed a with operation along your dynamical execution. It is totally fine to use a RefValue as a value for a ScopedValue. The only “benefit” I see here is that you avoid s…

Change `ScopedValue` default outside of `with`

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ericphanson October 19, 2025, 6:52pm 5

Maybe ANN: ScopedSettings - ScopedValues with malleable global values meets your needs?

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Change `ScopedValue` default outside of `with`

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