Hi All, This (2012) discussion <https://gist.github.com/dmbates/3939427> seems to suggest that generic functions cannot be used within closures in Julia. But this seems to work now
function creator(y) function power(x) return x .^ y end function myNorm(x) return sum( power(x) ) end return power, myNorm end julia> (a, b) = creator(2.) (power,myNorm) julia> a(2) 4.0 julia> b([1. 2.]) 5.0 I use generic functions because they support keyword optional arguments and I want to do things such as function a(y, extra...) function b(x, extra...; z = true) "something" end end which seems to work in terms of not "mixing up" the ... with the optional arguments. Notice that I am mainly an R user, currently experimenting with Julia, so my approach might be completely wrong. [1]: https://gist.github.com/dmbates/3939427
