Is there a way to declare function arguments as constants to prevent their accidental modification in the function body? For example, function foo(x::const Int, y::Int) return x + y end or function foo(x::immutable Int, y::Int) return x + y end Or even, some method like in FORTRAN, via i…

Constant function arguments

SepandMeenu January 30, 2018, 10:28am 10

@StefanKarpinski
I wrote up an extensive new topic about this:
see https://discourse.julialang.org/t/8686
I hope I’ve got the idea correctly.

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