# Evaluation in calling scope?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/evaluation-in-calling-scope/34897
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [February 20, 2020, 11:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/evaluation-in-calling-scope/34897 "2020-02-20T11:15:55Z")
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> [@tomtom](#):
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> but I wanna evaluate the expression **at the calling scope**

There are probably workarounds to achieve what you want to achieve but the straight-forward answer is just that you cannot eval in calling scope since eval evaluates in global scope.

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