Why aren’t question marks allowed in variable names in Julia? This question has probably been discussed elsewhere so perhaps someone can point me there if they know the location. Its a small thing, but it would be nice to write scheme style predicates if possible (eg. integer?(x) instead of isinteg…

Question mark in variable names

yuyichao May 22, 2017, 3:41am 5

Prime is allowed

julia> a′ = 1
1

julia> a′ + 2
3

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