Referencing local variable before assignment results in unexpected behavior

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@antoine-levitt

It is not the same as mutable structures because it interferes with scoping issues

Please recall that you were talking about

@antoine-levitt

changing the binding in a closure

so, presumably, the scoping issues are already out of the way since you know what you are changing, specifically.

@antoine-levitt

I would imagine most people using Julia do not come from a functional programming background and have never heard of lisp

That is neither here or there, you were talking about how Julia’s implementation

@antoine-levitt

might differ from other languages

and it doesn’t, really.