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In Julia, there is one type of global scope, defined as the scope of the individual module (module names can be exported or referenced by module name, but there is no global scope above module scope). User code not defined within a specific module has global scope within the predefined default module main. There are two types of local or nonglobal scope in Julia: hard local scope, which is the scope of variables defined within functions, and the "soft" local scope of variables within code structures, as quoted below from Julia's documentation: