Can someone make me understand the actual significance of global keyword in Julia?

It is global scope, it is the only possibility and you do not need to use the keyword global there. You use global when you want to refer to a global variable inside a block, specially if the block start assigning a value to the global variable (e.g., function f(...); global x = 1; ...; end). Withou…

Significance of global keyword

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Debraj_Bhal November 10, 2020, 1:47pm 3

Thank you @mauro3, I was confused when we declare a variable outside ,not within any block, what is its scope?

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Significance of global keyword

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