Why? What property would a let block have that a local function wouldn’t have?

 — John

On Feb 2, 2014, at 12:06 AM, [email protected] wrote:

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> On Feb 2, 2014, at 14:51, John Myles White <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> What are you trying to achieve by using the return inside of your let block? 
>> Do you want to make the let block behave like a local function?
>> 
>>  — John
>> 
>> On Feb 1, 2014, at 11:24 PM, Brian Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> julia> let x=1; for i=1:37; x=2*x; end; return x; end
>>> 137438953472
>>> 
>>> julia> y = let x=1; for i=1:37; x=2*x; end; x; end
>>> 137438953472
>>> 
>>> julia> y = let x=1; for i=1:37; x=2*x; end; return x; end
>>> ERROR: syntax: misplaced return statement
>>> How to make let statements with return work inside other expressions?
>> 
> Yes. I want to use a let block like a function.

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