There's two things going on here:
(1) Julia's arrays are homogeneously typed, so that Python's list is
effectively always like Julia's Array{Any}, which is created using {}, not [].
(2) Julia currently assumes you want to flatten arrays, which is something a
lot of people dislike and might change. That's being done by vcat IIRC.
-- John
On May 30, 2014, at 9:39 AM, Dustin Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> In python if I create a list like:
> [[1,2,3], 2, [1,2]] or [[true]]
>
> They retain their structure. In Julia all the nesting vanishes.
>
> E.g. they become (essentially): [1,2,3,2,1,2] and [true]
>
> Two questions:
> - what is this process of "auto-de-nesting" called? (I'm assuming there is a
> word for this)
> - What would be the idiomatic way of creating the nested lists as above so
> they retrain their structure?
>
> Thanks,
>
> dustin
