[julia-users] Re: rand(x::Int32) doesn't exist, omission or intentional?

2014-08-11 Thread Clemens Heitzinger
Works like this (on 0.3.0-rc3): *julia> **methods(rand)* *# 31 methods for generic function "rand":* *rand(::Type{Float64}) at random.jl:88* *rand() at random.jl:89* *rand(::Type{Float32}) at random.jl:91* *rand(::Type{Float16}) at random.jl:92* *rand{T<:Real}(::Type{Complex{T<:Real}}) at ra

[julia-users] Re: rand(x::Int32) doesn't exist, omission or intentional?

2014-08-11 Thread Steven G. Johnson
On Sunday, August 10, 2014 7:14:08 PM UTC-4, Jeff Waller wrote: > > Is there a reason for this just kind of got overlooked because the usage > is rare? > I think it just got overlooked. Because ultimately it gets converted to an (Int...) tuple, it is easy to be lazy and just require that the

[julia-users] Re: rand(x::Int32) doesn't exist, omission or intentional?

2014-08-11 Thread Steven G. Johnson
On Monday, August 11, 2014 9:04:23 AM UTC-4, Clemens Heitzinger wrote: > > Works like this (on 0.3.0-rc3): Clemens, I think Jeff wanted to generate a random Float64 array from an int32 size, not an array of random Int32 values. I added a pull request (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/795

[julia-users] Re: rand(x::Int32) doesn't exist, omission or intentional?

2014-08-11 Thread Jeff Waller
On Monday, August 11, 2014 1:34:05 PM UTC-4, Steven G. Johnson wrote: > > On Monday, August 11, 2014 9:04:23 AM UTC-4, Clemens Heitzinger wrote: >> >> Works like this (on 0.3.0-rc3): > > > Clemens, I think Jeff wanted to generate a random Float64 array from an > int32 size, not an array of rando