How do you make standalone programs in Julia?

[anon91151494]

@jules

otherwise you do not get the same behavior

Sorry, just to confirm, which behavior is this you refer to here? I didn’t fully understand this.

[jules]

The feature described on the docs page you linked to:

As of Julia, 1.11, Base exports the macro @main. This macro expands to the symbol main, but at the conclusion of executing a script or expression, julia will attempt to execute the function Main.main(ARGS) if such a function has been defined and this behavior was opted into by using the @main macro.

You were asking what the difference between Main.main and @main is and I said, @main resolves to Main.main so in that sense they’re the same, but it also writes this hidden variable which is what enables the quoted behavior. If you just have a function called main in your Main module then nothing special happens if you run that script. But if you have a @main somewhere then Julia will execute that function.