I have been using Julia for all my codes. I was explaining all the advantages of Julia over Python to my lab members and one of them decided to give it a try. Since I had stumbled over scoping rules when I started, I warned about using global in for loop by showing a code which went something like t…

Here’s a simplified version of your original code: x = 0 v = [0] let global x = 1 # global needed here v[1] = 1 # no global needed here end So the question is why is global needed to assign to x but not to assign to v[1]. The answer is because x is a variable and v[1] is not a variabl…

Spooky action at distance not applicable to vectors?

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StefanKarpinski April 17, 2022, 2:53pm 2

Assignment and mutation are different things:

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