divmod in python is divrem in Julia.

Best,
Jake

On Thursday, April 3, 2014 6:45:37 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
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> Hi Julia users,
>
> Maybe you want to support me with my wish list.
> Here it is:
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> - end statement: remove it (ala python) and use indentation, the code will 
> be shorter and cleaner
>
> - case/switch: include it (missing in python)
>
> - array indexing: introduce with negative number -1,-2,... (instead of or 
> additionally to end, end-1)
>   e.g.: a[-3:-1] vs a[end-2:end]
>   (again shorter and cleaner). Note -1 could index the last element (not 
> previous last element as in python)
>   This would be inline with the Julia one-based indexing. (Maybe an idea 
> is to use braces for zero based indexing, e.g.  a{0}=3.14)
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> - dictionary: mydict = ["one": 1, "two": 2, "three": 3] 
>   (i.e. colons ala pythons instead of ["one"=> 1, "two"=> 2, "three"=> 3], 
> shorter and cleaner)
>   well, it is ambiguous: [1:3]
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> - provide a divmod function ala python
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> - if 5: should work (ala python and c, and not the redundant "if 5>0")  
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> - provide an enum function (enumerate ala python)
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> - [1 2 3] .< 2 remove the dot in those scalar operations
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> - elseif => elif
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> - length => len 
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>
> Ok. That's it for now.
> Julia devs, you did a great job! There are many things that I like more than 
> in python.
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich
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