On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 7:32:59 AM UTC-5, Sisyphuss wrote: > > In the documentation: > >Currently, type declarations cannot be used in global scope, e.g. in the > REPL, since Julia does not yet have constant-type globals. > But we already have > ``` > const pi = 3.14 > ``` > Isn't it a constant-type global? >
It is not just a constant-type global, though. It is also a constant-value global. A type-declared global variable would need to relax that restriction, which is not something that is currently supported. See also https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/964 (it's already linked in #8870).
