I don’t know what’s going wrong here. PS K:\uc24> julia _ _ _ _(_)_ | Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org (_) | (_) (_) | _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help. | | | | | | |/ _` | | | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 1.11.5 (20…

It looks like that functions don’t suffer this julia> function mysum(a, # b) return a + b end mysum (generic function with 1 method) julia> mysum(3, 4) 7

Might be an issue with the REPL and how unfinished expressions are recognized? Or perhaps there is some ambiguity in the unfinished let block? The function example should work because the open parenthesis ( is always enough to tell that the expression is not complete yet. But this also works juli…

Definitely a REPL limitation, like how we get a ParseError in strings or code if we input too many newlines even though that’d be fine if include-d from a file. Couple weird workarounds: julia> let x = 1 # wrote this comment after the next line x end 1 julia> let x = 1; # wrote this…

So it’s a bug. Will it be fixed? Update: I’ve opened an issue Let x = 1 # ParseError · Issue #58782 · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub

Like most users, I have no idea. You might see where the developers are at if you open a Github issue about this. If it’ll help, this particular REPL limitation seems to have started in v1.10 when JuliaSyntax.jl replaced the femtolisp-based parser; you can confirm by comparing v1.9 and v1.10.

Let x = 1 # ParseError

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Let x = 1 # ParseError

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