This intentionally cannot be done in local scope. Julia doesn't do reification of local scopes.
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Fady Shoukry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > As the subject line suggests, I am trying to programmatically create > variables from a supplied dictionary in a function. I am aware that I can > use eval() but eval will generate global variables which is something I am > trying to avoid for its performance disadvantages. Here is an example of > what I am trying to accomplish. > > function defVariables(dict::Dict{Symbol}{Any}) > # This function should define the variables as follows: > >
