# How to pass variable into loop?

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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [June 24, 2019, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-pass-variable-into-loop/25602 "2019-06-24T13:14:38Z")\
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Lots of deep thoughts about it:

> [@Another possible solution to the global scope debacle](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/another-possible-solution-to-the-global-scope-debacle/15894):
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> The infamous issue [https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/28789](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/28789) has been on most of our minds for a while now. Although I’ve stopped posting there, I can tell you I’ve been thinking about it a lot, as have Stefan and Jameson and others, and we have continued discussing it off and on. We should really try to get it right. Last time around, we more-or-less settled on changing only the REPL, which has the main advantage of being non-breaking for most code. But after sleeping on it, it does not …

and other threads.

I wouldn’t call it a debacle, actually I like it as it is or better: I like some of implications of it, e.g. one has to think about scope.

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