Its not clear what to do with sparse matrices and views. The major change will be the introduction of sparse vectors. We want to generally make the sparse matrix framework flexible enough so that there can be other implementations outside of Base.
-viral On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 8:46:27 PM UTC+5:30, Seth wrote: > > Are there similar plans to revamp sparse matrices? (I'd like to start > getting informed as early as possible). > > On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 2:14:53 AM UTC-7, Tim Holy wrote: >> >> On Thursday, September 17, 2015 11:55:56 PM harven wrote: >> > I see that there are many changes scheduled for arrays in the next >> release. >> > Can someone summarize what is planned? >> >> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/13157 >> >> > I understand that [,] will become non concatenating. What will be the >> type >> > of expressions such as >> > >> > ["julia", [1, 1.0]] >> > >> > Any, union{AbstractString, Array{Float64}}? >> >> Presumably an Arrary{Any,1}, though Array{Union{ASCIIString, >> Array{Float64,1}}, 1} is also a possibility. >> >> > >> > Will the following code return an error or an array of some type? >> > >> > push!(["one", [1, 5.1]], 1.5) >> >> Depends on the above >> >> > Is there some syntactic sugar planned for Any arrays, in the spirit of >> {}? >> >> Almost certainly not. Braces are in short supply, Any[] is easy. There is >> little enthusiasm for burning diamonds to heat the house :-). >> >> --Tim >> >>
