The NEWS.md file does cover this: • Ranges and arrays with the same elements are now unequal. This allows hashing and comparing ranges to be faster. (#5778)
On Aug 25, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Ed Scheinerman <edward.scheiner...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks again for the pointer to the release notes. > > The issue I raised was not dealt with in the release notes: namely, 1:5 == > [1:5] evaluates as true in Julia 0.2 but as false in Julia 0.3. > > I think the new behavior is a problem. I was happy with the old behavior, but > if this is a bad idea for some reason, I would prefer that Julia raised an > error in this situation rather than give a result that (in my opinion) is > wrong. Certainly Julia compares objects of different type for equality (e.g. > 0==0.0) so the fact that 1:5 and [1:5] are different types is not the issue. > > > On Saturday, August 23, 2014 9:06:50 AM UTC-4, Valentin Churavy wrote: > There is https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v0.3.0/NEWS.md > > On Saturday, 23 August 2014 15:02:56 UTC+2, Ed Scheinerman wrote: > Is there a document describing new features and significant changes between > versions 0.2 and 0.3? > > One item I noticed is that in 0.2 the express 1:5 == [1:5] evaluated as true, > but in 0.3 it's false.
