When redefining a subfunction I always have to go back and redefine the top level function since otherwise it continues to use the old definition of the subfunction. Is there a way around this? I have played with @noinline and starting julia with --optimise=0 but it doesn’t seem to help. The REPL se…

What you are seeing is #265 in action. From what I now this is slated to be fixed in Julia v0.6, but until then there is no good workaround.

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akis November 18, 2016, 8:03am 6

Relevant FAQ entry here (mostly second half).

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