Have a look at those links: On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 18:28, [email protected] wrote: > Both C++ and Fortran 90 allow the programmer to annotate call-by-reference > arguments to a function as to whether the function is allowed to change > them (this is denoted const & in C++). The compiler then enforces the > const-ness of the argument. I don't see how to do this in Julia. Is it > available? If not, is there a reason why it was not included? This is a > fairly basic tool for self-documenting code and for ensuring program > correctness.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-users/qJa2EyUXJfo/gVtFJKkHv4AJ > And a related question: the documentation makes a big deal about "stable > types" for function return arguments. An obvious question is why the > language doesn't allow the programmer to declare in the function heading > what will be the return types of the function, and then have the compiler > enforce this stability. Is this possible in Julia? If not, is there a > technical reason for omitting it? https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1090 > P.S. I have a few more questions but I'll pause now to wait for answers to > these questions. I hope they are easy to answer! Searching the issues on https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia may answer some of them.
