It's rarely used, but |> may be what you're looking for:

julia> X = zeros(50, 50);

julia> X|>size
(50,50)

julia> X|>length
2500

On Friday, April 11, 2014 6:49:16 PM UTC-4, Ben Racine wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I understand most of the mental maps between the common object-oriented 
> systems (Python, JavaScript) to Julia's multiple dispatch system.
>
> But, when a function really does logically belong to its first argument, I 
> (sometimes) find myself missing the function namespacing inherent to those 
> systems. I find myself wanting to do what one can do in R and inject a '.' 
> into the function name just for the illusion of namespacing. 
>
> I suspect there must be a Julia idiom right under my nose that I'm 
> forgetting.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
> Ben Racine
>
>

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