Have you seen https://github.com/JuliaAstro/FITSIO.jl
Off-topic, but it would be awesome to have FITS integrated into Images.jl. I could help with the integration, but it is pretty well documented: https://github.com/timholy/Images.jl/blob/master/doc/extendingIO.md Further discussion could happen at https://github.com/JuliaAstro/FITSIO.jl/issues/18 --Tim On Sunday, February 01, 2015 12:35:53 AM alex codoreanu wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a new Julia user and I'm starting to write a high-level multi data type > fits file reader and writer akin to IDL's mwrfits/mrdfits. I got most of > the dynamics figured out by I can't quite make a custom structure. For > example, I would like something like: > > element = {name::string, lambda::[float_array, 5000 elements], > flux::[float_array, 5000 elements]} > > structure = replicate(element, 500) > > where structure inherits the members of element and can be called, > > structure[1].name = the name of element 1 > strucutre[1].lambda[1] = the first lambda element of the first structure > > > Thanks !!!