# Initializing an object with \`nothing\`

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/initializing-an-object-with-nothing/4423
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [June 23, 2017, 10:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/initializing-an-object-with-nothing/4423 "2017-06-23T10:13:19Z")
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### Author: ![yuyichao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/yuyichao/32/20_2.png) [@yuyichao](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yuyichao)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2017, 10:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/initializing-an-object-with-nothing/4423/3 "2017-06-23T10:54:19Z")

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Also, it’ll hurt type stability and the syntax for declaring local variable is `local`.

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