Mauro,
Thanks. I've read the scope and performance sections you've mentioned.
Part of the problem comes from the often competing approaches of
scientific/numerical computing and well-versed/structured programming
practices. I have my hand in both pots at times. While global variables
are
Welcome to Julia!
Without having read your post in detail, your example looks like your
using global variables to hold the state as you're not passing around
anything. Apart from bad style in general, in Julia this is also bad
for performance (read [1]). The compiler cannot work well with
To start, I'm new to Julia and I'm trying things out to test Julia out for
some scientific/engineering applications. In particular, I'm working on
moderate size projects, where they're big enough that I'll need more than
one file with code in it to stay organized (let's say anywhere from 5-50
