Most julia functions are defined like this: function f(x) # some code end However a few packages use the following style f(x) = begin # some code end Is there a semantic difference between the two or are they exactly the same?

Ways of defining a function

Tamas_Papp May 1, 2017, 7:06pm 4

let has different scoping behavior, but other than that, yes. Note that the answer to your question is in the documentation, so please try to read that.

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Ways of defining a function

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