# Why julia has no clear(variable)?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-julia-has-no-clear-variable/6541>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [October 18, 2017, 11:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-julia-has-no-clear-variable/6541 "2017-10-18T23:15:49Z")\
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> [@foobar\_lv](#):
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> You could legitimately ask why julia does not expose the global symbol table to you, i.e. does not provide an analogue of  
> del globals()[‘x’]  
> on the REPL (removing entries from dictionaries is easy in julia).

Now that this thread has been revived anyway: _is_ it possible to do this? I agree with this:

> [@e3c6](#):
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> Note that deleting symbols is precisely what I want. It’s not about memory, it’s about removing a symbol from scope

The `let` solution is just too inconvenient, I’m never going to be bothered with that.

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