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Personally, the issue doesn’t bother me at all. On the contrary, I find the way 1.0 works quite easy to understand, unlike the previous which I never got, and that matters most to me. I’d rather have an interactive inconvinience than not understanding how the REPL works. I don’t mind learning though…

[image] Rui: I am curious if this really bothers a high proportion of people, or you are just getting the noise of a vocal minority while the rest of us sit back and watch. Indeed, I do worry about that. It’s one reason we didn’t just “fix it” immediately (a few people have claimed it’s a bug…

As an observer who doesn’t feel particularly invested in the global scope issue, to me it does seem that this has gone rather off the rails. It sounds pretty simple to me: everybody agrees that the code behavior should not depend on the enclosing scope, according to the constraints that @jeff.bezan…

[image] NaOH: Please any admin, destroy my user, thank you very much. [image] Request to become a moderator Meta Discussion Just forget it, please delete my account, there is no button in the settings to do that, thanks. Maybe you want to come back again? It’s …

[image] NaOH: I meant that if it was decided to release 2.0 and people laughing was your concern, then it shouldn’t be something to be concerned about. I wouldn’t worry about people laughing if I thought it was really the right thing to do. The 0.7-1.0 transition was also very clearly a one-t…

Maybe there should be a poll? This would give a hint of how much user code (as opposed to package code) is actually affected by this. Many users are not even aware of the issue … we are just enjoying Julia :slight_smile:

[image] e3c6: Maybe there should be a poll? Polls are the utter worse way to do decision making in open source. If we want to find out how much code we break we can test the entire ecosystem. Or a statistical sampling of it. But end of the day a decision really comes from core devs taking …

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