Re: [julia-users] Filling a long composite type

[Jameson Nash]

tt = t( ["" for i = 1:120]... )

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:43 PM, J Luis <jmfl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let's say I have this composite type
>
> julia> type t
>        aa::ASCIIString;
>        bb::ASCIIString;
>        end
>
> and try to fill it a la C (or Matlab)
>
> julia> tt=t
> t (constructor with 1 method)
>
> julia> tt.aa="AA"
> ERROR: type DataType has no field aa
>
> so bad surprise. I can't. So I have to do for instance
>
> julia> tt=t("AA","BB");
>
> but my real type is 120 members long and I don't want to do it that way (I
> would for sure make lots of mistakes). So I want to try like this
>
> julia> tt=t("","");
>
> julia> tt.aa="AA"
> "AA"
>
>
> but do I avoid doing tt=t("","","",... 120 times?)
>
> Tried this but no luck either
>
> julia> tt=t(repmat([""],10));
> ERROR: no method t(Array{ASCIIString,1})
>
> Thanks
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