Oh, I see!
So I read somewhere that my construction involving `eval` is bad practice.
can anyone give me some guidance as to what is the proper julian way of
expressing this:
eval(Expr(:call,f,3))?
thanks!
On Monday, 19 September 2016 09:46:55 UTC+2, Bart Janssens wrote:
>
> In 0.5-rc4 your code runs without any warnings. I think only the call
> function was deprecated, not the :call symbol in an expression tree:
> dump(:(f(3))) yields:
> Expr
> head: Symbol call
> args: Array{Any}((2,))
> 1: Symbol f
> 2: Int64 3
> typ: Any
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bart
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 9:32 AM Florian Oswald <florian...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> i was trying to make sense of the final outcome of the discussion here
>> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/13412, but no way. Also I'm not
>> sure what to search for in the documentation (?Base.call tells me it's
>> deprecated.)
>>
>> So:
>>
>> if up to now I programmatically evaluate a function f like that:
>>
>> f(x) = x^2
>>
>> eval(Expr(:call,f,3))
>> 9
>>
>> what's the new way of doing that?
>> cheers
>> florian
>>
>
