[julia-users] Re: fminbound in Matlab

[Steven G. Johnson]

On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 9:05:07 AM UTC-4, Alex wrote:
>
> ## Make "Container" Function because I can only optimize over x, even 
> though z is still a parameter
> function test_max(x,z)
> x[1]^2 + z 
> end
>

This is a bit more complicated than is necessary.  Just write your 
objective as

       function func(x, z, grad)
           ...
      end

and then set the objective via:

    min_objective!(opt, (x,grad) -> func(x,z,grad))

Closures are your friends!