Use vec On Sep 3, 2014, at 11:35 AM, David Smith <david.sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, so you can continue using the old squeeze. Us reckless types can use the > aggressive one. ;-) > > I don't see why it shouldn't be available. Is there a fear that new users > will run into subtle errors and hate Julia because of it? > > What I hate is typing squeeze(x, 1) all the time. > > > > On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 1:21:56 PM UTC-5, Tim Holy wrote: > On Wednesday, September 03, 2014 10:57:16 AM David Smith wrote: > > Also, why don't we have a squeeze(A::AbstractArray{T,N}) method that > > eliminates all singleton dimensions? If we had that, indexing returning > > singleton dimensions wouldn't be as bad. Currently, having to write > > squeeze(a[k,:,:],1) is terrible. That is something where Matlab wins. > > It wins, until the day that the a that gets returned by some other algorithm > happens, on one iteration out of 10^4, to have size (K, M, N) with M =1. At > that point, Matlab's squeeze delivers you an Nx1 array rather than the 1xN > array you wished you had. > > I can't tell you how many times I got bit by that, until I stopped using > squeeze altogether and just used reshape(). Which is more tedious yet than > Julia's squeeze(). > > --Tim >