Erratum: One should never depend on *the behavior* of uninitialized
variables.
On Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 4:08:35 PM UTC+2, Sisyphuss wrote:
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> You should never depend on uninitialized variables.
> This is a good advice for any language.
>
>
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> On Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 3:46:48 PM UTC+2, Matt wrote:
>>
>> Similar(x::Vector{Float64}) creates a new vector with NaN in some cases.
>> There is no mention of this in the documentation. Is it a bug? It was a
>> source of bug in my code since I was using something like scale!(x, 0)
>> instead of fill!(x, 0) to define a general operation akin to BLAS
>> gemm(\beta, A, B, \alpha, x) (where x may be a vector create by similar()).
>> I can't reproduce such a behavior with simple vectors such as
>> similar(randn(10000).
>>
>> Here the command that fails:
>>
>> x =
>> 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>> mean(x)
>> mean(similar(x))
>>
>>
