How can I avoid creating closures? I noticed that due to the Julia syntax/REPL I inadvertently create a lot of closures. Consider my typical workflow where code evolves from a unstructured script towards a more function based interface: I have a bunch of lines that do what they are supposed to, and …

All you need to to is put your functions inside a module, which will prevent them from accessing globals from the REPL. Of course, any global variables inside the module will still be accessible, but those should be much easier to avoid.

How to avoid capturing variables in functions?

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zgornel May 13, 2019, 3:27pm 5

using .A should bring all exported functions into the current namespace. export requires explicit naming of exported symbols.

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/modules/

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How to avoid capturing variables in functions?

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