local scope problems with @parallel

[EthanAnderes]

The call to @parallel in the local scope below can't find a

addprocs(3)
if true
    a = 2
    x = @parallel (vcat) for k=1:2
        sin(a)
    end  #<--- gives an error
end

Outside the conditional scope it works fine

addprocs(3)
a = 2
x = @parallel (vcat) for k=1:2
    sin(a)
end   #<---works fine

google groups reference

[pao: quoting macro name]

[pao]

@EthanAnderes not directly related to the issue, but please try to always code-quote Julia macro names to avoid sending notifications to GitHub users who happen to share them.

[porterjamesj]

does this have something to do with localize_vars? I looked into it briefly and couldn't figure it out.

[EthanAnderes]

@pao: Sorry to be dense here but I'm a total newbie at github. Could you elaborate a bit. I'm not sure I know what you mean when you say "code-quote Julia macro names"

[StefanKarpinski]

If you don't put backticks around @parallel it will send a notification email to this person on GitHub and subscribe them to this discussion. They likely have no interest in this conversion and will be very annoyed. This doesn't happen in markdown code syntax – so inside backticks, or in blocks that are indented four spaces or preceded and followed by three backticks on a line.

[EthanAnderes]

@StefanKarpinski I see now..the problem was that I left out the backticks in the title. Sorry about that.

[pao]

I left out the backticks in the title

I'm not sure if the title causes a notification--I hope not. It was in the first line (I edited it to add the backticks). Sorry for the confusion.

[StefanKarpinski]

I don't think titles are interpreted as markdown for better or worse.

[amitmurthy]

Closed by #19594

[tkelman]

is this case tested?