[julia-users] planned array changes

2015-09-17 Thread harven
I see that there are many changes scheduled for arrays in the next release. Can someone summarize what is planned? I understand that [,] will become non concatenating. What will be the type of expressions such as ["julia", [1, 1.0]] Any, union{AbstractString, Array{Float64}}? Will the

Re: [julia-users] planned array changes

2015-09-18 Thread Mauro
> Is there some syntactic sugar planned for Any arrays, in the spirit of > {}? Not as far as I know, but Any[] is pretty short.

Re: [julia-users] planned array changes

2015-09-18 Thread Tim Holy
On Thursday, September 17, 2015 11:55:56 PM harven wrote: > I see that there are many changes scheduled for arrays in the next release. > Can someone summarize what is planned? https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/13157 > I understand that [,] will become non concatenating. What will be the

Re: [julia-users] planned array changes

2015-09-18 Thread Seth
Are there similar plans to revamp sparse matrices? (I'd like to start getting informed as early as possible). On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 2:14:53 AM UTC-7, Tim Holy wrote: > > On Thursday, September 17, 2015 11:55:56 PM harven wrote: > > I see that there are many changes scheduled for array

Re: [julia-users] planned array changes

2015-09-19 Thread Viral Shah
Its not clear what to do with sparse matrices and views. The major change will be the introduction of sparse vectors. We want to generally make the sparse matrix framework flexible enough so that there can be other implementations outside of Base. -viral On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 8:46:2