Your welcome. Your recollection is wrong though, this was possible in 0.2 and 0.3; I just checked (I don't have a 0.1 build but maybe I should...).
On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 22:25, Ehsan Eftekhari <e.eftekh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Mauro. As you predicted, my question was about the reasoning behind > this behavior. If I remember correctly, it was not possible to use getindex > on real numbers in Julia 0.3. I was not sure why it is added to 0.4. > > On Monday, November 30, 2015 at 10:01:54 AM UTC+1, Mauro wrote: >> >> As it says, there is no method for it. You could add it yourself: >> >> Base.getindex(f::Float64, ::Colon) = f # or whatever you like >> >> However, the philosophical question is: should you be allowed to index >> into a float (or int)? Julia usually puts convenience before strictness >> and allows this. I'm not sure there are technical reasons to draw the >> line at `1[:]`. If no-one gives one, you could open a pull request >> (probably should add a method for `q[1:end]` too). >> >> On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 09:32, Ehsan Eftekhari <e.eft...@gmail.com >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> > I have a question about this behaviour of getindex in Julia: >> > >> > if I say >> > >> > julia> a=1.0 >> > 1.0 >> > >> > then >> > >> > julia> a[1] >> > 1.0 >> > >> > julia> a[end] >> > 1.0 >> > >> > but >> > >> > julia> a[:] >> > ERROR: MethodError: `getindex` has no method matching >> getindex(::Float64, >> > ::Colon) >> > Closest candidates are: >> > getindex(::Number) >> > getindex(::Number, ::Integer) >> > getindex(::Number, ::Integer...) >> > ... >> > >> > Why the last one does not work? >>
