# Why julia has no clear(variable)?

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**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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It cannot be a function and it’ll have very different semantics from the matlab function. It is easily implementable in local scope though in most cases what you can use is simply `let`. Ones that cannot be represented by `let` scope of a variable is likely very hard for human to understand too.

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