As in there should be no performance penalty at all in the vast majority of cases :)
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 4:18 PM, John Myles White <johnmyleswh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Specialization of higher-order functions should be much improved in Julia > 0.5. > > On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 1:10:24 PM UTC-7, Douglas Bates wrote: >> >> I am writing a simulation function that loops over simulating a data set >> and fitting multiple statistical models to the data. The exact form of the >> output will depend on which characteristics of the fitted models I wish to >> preserve. My inclination is to pass a callback function to take the set of >> models after each iteration and extract and save the characteristics of >> interest. >> >> However, I have a vague recollection that passing a function as an >> argument to another function was discouraged. I believe it made type >> inference awkward. Was that ever the case and, if so, is still the case? >> >
