Removal of workspace() and a way to clear variables

Internals & Design
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My understanding is that when you type x=1 in the REPL, it adds an x binding in the Main module, it’s a bit like typing:

module Main
    x = 1
end

It seems Julia keeps some sort of list of all the bindings in a module, is there a reason why we can’t remove an element from that table ? e.g. delete!(Main,:x).

Otherwise maybe something like REPLinModule might a workaround, to get a clean workspace you would do module Testing end, REPLinModule.set(Testing) and your REPL would then be evaluating in an empty module (which is more or less what workspace does, as I understand).

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