Awesome, I see that 0.5 is scheduled for early December. Looking forward to
having this fixed.
On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 9:37:37 AM UTC-8, Josh Langsfeld wrote:
>
> Should also mention that even when ["1", ["1","2","3"]] returns a two
> element Vector{Any}, the inner array will still get inferred to be
> Vector{ASCIIString} unless you add the Any prefix.
>
> On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 12:30:28 PM UTC-5, Josh Langsfeld wrote:
>>
>> Your conclusion is correct. The final switch should happen pretty soon on
>> 0.5 master. Until then, the work-around is to prefix all your brackets with
>> 'Any', including the inner arrays.
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 12:20:15 PM UTC-5, vis...@stanford.edu
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Julia seems cool! Vector literals have me completely stumped though. A
>>> little help?
>>> What is going on here?
>>>
>>> ["1","1"] => ASCIIString["1","1"]
>>> ["1",["1"]] => ASCIIString["1","1"] + "WARNING: [a,b] concatenation is
>>> deprecated; use [a;b] instead"
>>> ["1",Any["1"]] => ASCIIString["1","1"] + "WARNING: [a,b] concatenation
>>> is deprecated; use [a;b] instead"
>>> Any["1",["1"]] => Any["1", ASCIIString["1"]] # not what I want, the
>>> second array should be general purpose a la python
>>>
>>> Basically I just want general heterogeneous lists like python.
>>>
>>> I read about the {} syntax somewhere which does exactly what I want,
>>> but I keep getting deprecation warnings, so I'd rather not poke that dragon.
>>> It seems based on the fact that ["1",["1"]] generates a deprecated
>>> warning about behaving wrong, and {"1",{"1"}} is completely deprecated
>>> syntax that at some point, ["1",["1"]] should do what I want it to, but
>>> this feature has somehow been only half migrated over?
>>>
>>> Help!
>>>
>>> Vishesh
>>>
>>
