[julia-users] Re: Nonuniform arrays

2014-09-03 Thread James Porter
I think this sort of thing is usually called a ragged array, you might find more use cases, examples, etc., googling for that term. +1 on having a package for this, Array{Array{T}} often feels very awkward. On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 9:03:56 AM UTC-7, Reid Atcheson wrote: A common

[julia-users] Re: Nonuniform arrays

2014-09-03 Thread Keith Campbell
+1 for such a package.and for Ragged Array.

Re: [julia-users] Re: Nonuniform arrays

2014-09-03 Thread Stefan Karpinski
I think RaggedArrays.jl is a good, clear name. Looking forward to a packaged version! On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Reid Atcheson reid.atche...@gmail.com wrote: I like the idea of renaming this to Ragged array. I'll go ahead and do that, and try to package-ify this. If I step on any toes

[julia-users] Re: Nonuniform arrays

2014-09-03 Thread Reid Atcheson
I like the idea of renaming this to Ragged array. I'll go ahead and do that, and try to package-ify this. If I step on any toes here by using ragged array then I guess people will let me know. Enforcing data contiguity might make certain operations hard that people might expect to be useful -

Re: [julia-users] Re: Nonuniform arrays

2014-09-03 Thread Reid Atcheson
I believe it is all in place now: https://github.com/ReidAtcheson/RaggedArrays.jl There is not a versioned release yet, which I will wait to do until it is a little more fleshed out. Functionality is still basic. On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 10:08:40 AM UTC-5, Stefan Karpinski wrote: I