That's interesting - but what advantage does it have over a single global variable?
On Sunday, September 13, 2015 at 7:03:24 PM UTC-7, Tom Breloff wrote: > > Here's a pattern I like to use a lot, that should be what you're looking > for. Wrap your value in a type, and have a global const of that type, with > a getter and setter method (you can skip the getter/setter, but it makes it > nicer). > > > julia> type GlobalVarHolder > mybool::Bool > end > > julia> const GLOBALVAR = GlobalVarHolder(true) > GlobalVarHolder(true) > > julia> gv() = GLOBALVAR.mybool > gv (generic function with 1 method) > > julia> gv!(b::Bool) = (GLOBALVAR.mybool = b) > gv! (generic function with 1 method) > > julia> f() = @show gv() > f (generic function with 1 method) > > julia> f() > gv() = true > true > > julia> gv!(false) > false > > julia> f() > gv() = false > false > > > > > On Sunday, September 13, 2015 at 6:33:16 PM UTC-4, Seth wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to track a setting throughout my module (that will cause the >> [transparent] dispatch of either single-threaded or parallel versions of >> many different functions). Is there a more Julian way of doing the >> following? This seems inelegant: >> >> _parallel = false # start off without parallelism - user calls >> parallelize() to set/unset. >> >> function parallelize(p::Bool=true) >> global _parallel = p >> end >> >> >> function foo(a::Int) # there will be many functions like this >> if _parallel >> _foo_parallel(a) >> else >> _foo_singlethread(a) >> end >> end >> >>