Constants

Constants

Core.nothing — Constant.
nothing

The singleton instance of type Nothing, used by convention when there is no value to return (as in a C void function) or when a variable or field holds no value.

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Base.PROGRAM_FILE — Constant.
PROGRAM_FILE

A string containing the script name passed to Julia from the command line. Note that the script name remains unchanged from within included files. Alternatively see @__FILE__.

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Base.ARGS — Constant.
ARGS

An array of the command line arguments passed to Julia, as strings.

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Base.C_NULL — Constant.
C_NULL

The C null pointer constant, sometimes used when calling external code.

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Base.VERSION — Constant.
VERSION

A VersionNumber object describing which version of Julia is in use. For details see Version Number Literals.

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Base.LOAD_PATH — Constant.
LOAD_PATH

An array of paths as strings or custom loader objects for the require function and using and import statements to consider when loading code.

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Base.Sys.BINDIR — Constant.
Sys.BINDIR

A string containing the full path to the directory containing the julia executable.

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Base.Sys.CPU_CORES — Constant.
Sys.CPU_CORES

The number of logical CPU cores available in the system.

See the Hwloc.jl package for extended information, including number of physical cores.

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Base.Sys.WORD_SIZE — Constant.
Sys.WORD_SIZE

Standard word size on the current machine, in bits.

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Base.Sys.KERNEL — Constant.
Sys.KERNEL

A symbol representing the name of the operating system, as returned by uname of the build configuration.

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Base.Sys.ARCH — Constant.
Sys.ARCH

A symbol representing the architecture of the build configuration.

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Base.Sys.MACHINE — Constant.
Sys.MACHINE

A string containing the build triple.

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