Just commenting on the lack of anouncement. As all this happend on a developement branch of Julia which is always a little in flux these things should not really be anounced. What counts is how the NEWS file looks in the end.
Am Dienstag, 8. Juli 2014 11:56:12 UTC+2 schrieb Hans W Borchers: > > Has this been announced somewhere? (Frankly,I'm not reading julia-dev on a > regular basis.) > I see that the manual does not reflects this change. See section > "Vectorized Operators and Functions": > > Some operators without dots operate elementwise anyway > when one argument is a scalar. > These operators are *, /, \, and the bitwise operators. > > though ".+", ".-" are not in the list of binary arithmetic operators > anymore (and do work properly). > > And actually, 1 / [1.0, 2.0] does now operate elementwise, but gives a > "deprecated" warning once. > Will it be deprecated, or stay alive as the manual claims. > > Dear core developers, don't listen to Julia newbies (like me) too closely > -- stick to what you think is reasonable. > > > On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 10:51:30 AM UTC+2, Hans W Borchers wrote: >> >> What has happened, two months later, to the (in)famous 'dot' notation in >> Julia? >> There was such a convincing discussion that 5 + x shall not be >> correct, so >> I got used to it. When I now by chance try ... >> > > > >> On Friday, May 2, 2014 3:55:20 PM UTC+2, Hans W Borchers wrote: >>> >>> I have to admit that I am quite unhappy with some of the changed >>> features in >>> Julia version 0.3.0, especially the 'dot' notation. Here are some >>> examples. >>> >>> >>> Let x be a vector defined as x = [0.1, 0.2, 0.3] . Then typing >>> >>> julia> 5 + x >>> WARNING: x::Number + A::Array is deprecated, use x .+ A instead. >>> >>>
