Removing bound checks globally in an interactive session

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Does starting an interactive session (or an IJulia notebook from that session) using the command line option “–check-bounds=no” really eliminate all boundary checks across the entire code?

For instance, the following session indicates that a boundary check is still performed.

MacBook-Pro-10:spt snirgaz$ /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia --check-bounds=no
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julia> a=[1,2,3]
3-element Array{Int64,1}:
 1
 2
 3

julia> a[4]
ERROR: BoundsError: attempt to access 3-element Array{Int64,1} at index [4]
Stacktrace:
 [1] getindex(::Array{Int64,1}, ::Int64) at ./array.jl:520
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Put it in a function.

julia> f(a) = a[4];

julia> a = [1,2,3];

julia> f(a)
0

julia> a[4]
ERROR: BoundsError: attempt to access 3-element Array{Int64,1} at index [4]
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Thanks!