Thanks, I misunderstood. I'm still interested, though, in hearing about Julian equivalents (if there are any) to Matlab's persistent variables.
--Peter On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 1:41:02 PM UTC-8, Miles Lubin wrote: > > Just to clarify, my suggestion doesn't require any saved state between > functions. In the context of the discussion, the state can be saved in the > AbstractNLPEvaluator object. > > On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 1:11:36 PM UTC-5, Peter Simon wrote: >> >> I saw a suggestion from Miles Lubin in >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-opt/z8Ld4-kdvCI for >> avoiding redundant calculations that appeared to involve saving state >> between function calls, and I wonder what is the standard Julian way to do >> this. I'm asking here because this seems to be a general Julia question. >> In Matlab I would use a "persistent" variable. What is the corresponding >> idiom in Julia? Closures? Or something else? >> >> Thanks, >> --Peter >> >
