Github user rxin commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/499#issuecomment-41243517
Is the problem A has a reference to the outer level repl object? Maybe a
better solution here is to turn reference tracking off when we serialize
closures in the shell mode ... @mateiz thoughts?
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