Julia 1.0 Programming Complete Reference Guide

functions

Functions can be nested, as demonstrated in the following example:

function a(x) 
    z = x * 2 
    function b(z) 
        z += 1 
    end 
    b(z) 
end 
 
d = 5 
a(d) #=> 11 

A function can also be recursive, that is, it can call itself. To show some examples, we need to be able to test a condition in code. The simplest way to do this in Julia is to use the ternary operator ? of the form expr ? b : c (ternary because it takes three arguments). Julia also has a normal if construct. (Refer to the Conditional evaluation section of Chapter 4, Control Flow.) expr is a condition and, if it is true, then b is evaluated and the value is returned, else c is evaluated. This is used in the following recursive definition to calculate the sum of all the integers up to and ...