I saw the following line in one of the Flux.jl examples evalcb = () -> @show loss(tx, ty) In my mind, this is identical to evalcb() = @show loss(tx, ty) which I find more legible. An even more minimal example: julia> foo = () -> 3 #1 (generic function with 1 method) julia> bar() = 3 bar (gene…

`foo = () -> 3` vs. `foo() = 3`

oheil April 21, 2021, 7:05am 4

Could you explain a bit more about this?
I wonder, why it is the second g()=4 which is the only once definition?

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