Following up, the easiest way I've found to fix things so they're cross-version is to change my test from
foo = [1 2 3 4 5] @test [1, :] == [1 2 3 4 5] to foo = [1 2 3 4 5] @test [1, :][:] == [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] # note the trailing [:] This works on both 0.4 and 0.5. On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 9:31:28 PM UTC-8, Tony Kelman wrote: > > We could possibly start adding feature flags for this kind of change > that's only in semantics and not syntax. Maybe better to put that kind of > flag in Compat.jl by way of a dummy indexing test rather than in Base? > > > On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 8:50:17 PM UTC-8, Seth wrote: >> >> Thanks, Tony. It's in tests, so I guess I can make it version-dependent. >> Is there a better way to do it? I had version conditionals throughout the >> code during the 0.3 - 0.4 cycle, and it was less than ideal. I'd like to >> avoid that again if at all possible. >> >> >> On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 8:43:02 PM UTC-8, Tony Kelman wrote: >>> >>> Yes. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/13612 >>> It's in NEWS.md. >>> >>> Make your code version-dependent if it can't handle the new behavior. >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 8:19:32 PM UTC-8, Seth wrote: >>>> >>>> LightGraphs started failing 0.5 tests, while -release is fine: >>>> >>>> https://travis-ci.org/JuliaGraphs/LightGraphs.jl/jobs/90631116 >>>> >>>> apparently foo[3,:] now returns [x,y,z] instead of [x y z]. >>>> >>>> 1) could someone confirm this new behavior? >>>> 2) what's the best way of handling this besides disabling tests on 0.5? >>>> >>>>
