On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 1:27:47 PM UTC-5, J Luis wrote:
>
> Sure, sometimes you might *really* want to do this despite the drawbacks,
>> but in that case using the getfield(foo,:bar) syntax for it is just fine.
>>
>
> I'm perfectly fine with that but PLEASE, add to the manual that one can
> also do getfield(foo,symbol("bar"))
>
Should probably be in "noteworthy differences from MATLAB", along with a
suggestion that a Dict is probably more suitable (and doesn't have the
extreme performance penalty of containers.Map).
