I’m interested in potentially better scoping rules but those will be breaking changes. (I have read the PSA: Julia is not at that stage of development anymore ). When is Julia 2.0 planned to come? Is changing scoping rules for that admissible, beyond just making the rules in REPL and files be the …

About question 1, a 2.0 version is not planned at the moment, it may or may not happen at all.

Imho, scoping rules seem to pop-up here mainly because they are different than in some other popular languages. They are not bad though – in the sense of needing to be fixed – and work quite nicely for interactively exploring things julia> tmp = 0 0 julia> for x in 1:10 tmp += x …

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gdalle May 17, 2025, 8:53am 5

See e.g. Is Julia 2.0 needed?

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