Hi Leah, I fully understand that syntax changes are difficult. Nevertheless, I want to encourage to do those, which I think are in the spirit of the Julia philosophy (http://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/): - "we want the language to be simple and clean"
Still Julia is a quite young language, and changes are excusable. When you say those suggestion were made before on this mailing list, then you should take this criticism seriously. Also I found in webpages and blog criticizing those shortcomings. I hope for more support from the user community. (Maybe a spin-off "Julion" or a converting script can be developed which is more amenable for Python users.) "if 5:" as said in python and c it works. In my opinion scalar and element-wise operation should be done without the dot. More complicated operations like inner and outer product should use the dot. That is more intuitive. divmod is very handy as it returns both the quotient and remainder >>> divmod(7.5,4) (1.0, 3.5) Friedrich
