As far as I understand: svecs are simple indexable containers; they are used in bootstrap before arrays are defined. Once arrays are defined they are not really useful anymore and thus not intended as a datatype for public consumption. Still, they should get some documentation as one can stumble upon them. Github may be able to tell you more.
On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 06:08, Ismael Venegas Castelló <ismael.vc1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > - What exactly are these SimpleVectors? > - Why show them as svec? > - What's their purpose? > - How to use SimpleVector constructor manually, without using Core.svec? > > > They are not documented at all. All I understand is that they are svec is > not generic but "intrinsic" / "builtin", I think they are used earlier in > bootstrap? > > Since they don't work with @which, an @whereis kinda macro would be nice to > give a link to their source code in github, even if it's in C or whatever. > IMHO we should really differentiate all this "anonymous" (that's what > typeof tell you) functions and document them. > > Couldn't we just wrap them in Julia functions and treat them as the rest? > > julia> svec(args...) = Core.svec(args...) > svec (generic function with 1 method) > > julia> svec(1) > svec(1)
