Hello, In Matlab, people often use structures to pass around arguments between functions, for example problem instances. This allows some flexibility in the development, since I don't have to think of all variables that I need and their types, and new objects can be easily added to existing structs
In Julia, I tend to use Dicts to replicate this behavior, to pass around options and helper structures to my functions. I don't think this is recommended since it doesn't allow functions to specialize on the type of objects contained in the Dict. Should I use custom types instead? If some fields can be of different types, should I use an abstract type for my options and then use different subtypes ? This seems a bit too complicated... On the other hand, writing down all arguments in functions without using Dicts or custom types can be tedious when they are a lot of variables... Thanks for your advice.
