Heh, I knew it would have been discussed to death already. Thanks for the quick replies!
Also, forgot to mention in the previous message, but it's a great introduction indeed! Had to download and play at 1.3x speed though On Friday, 11 July 2014 22:36:45 UTC+2, Patrick O'Leary wrote: > > Start with the discussion in https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/249 > and branch out from there for the discussion. > > On Friday, July 11, 2014 3:17:49 PM UTC-5, Job van der Zwan wrote: >> >> So this is an offtopic question inspired by the talk: around the 57th >> minute in the second video there's a discussion about + and +=. Although I >> didn't hear the question, I assume it was equal to mine: if we had a >> separate += operator, then *a += b* could be defined to update the >> fields of a, whereas *a = a + b* requires the creation of a new object. >> Since "don't generate garbage in the first place" is a good form of memory >> optimisation in *any *garbage collected language, that sounds like quite >> a legit use-case to me, especially in a language dedicated to number >> crunching. >> >> Now, I assume the Julia team has also thought of this, so I'm wondering >> why it was decided to not have the possibility to overload *+=*, *-=*, >> etcetera? You could still go with *a += b* being the same as *a = a + b* >> if it isn't explicitly defined, to keep things convenient. >> >> On Thursday, 10 July 2014 19:41:21 UTC+2, Stefan Karpinski wrote: >>> >>> This should absolutely be linked to from the home page – it's a really >>> great starting point for learning Julia. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Jake Bolewski <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Congrats David that tutorial went really well. Perhaps now that we are >>>> going to be collecting a large number of videos about Julia these can be >>>> linked from the home page so they are bit easier to find? >>>> >>>> -Jake >>>> >>>> On Thursday, July 10, 2014 11:13:34 AM UTC-4, John Myles White wrote: >>>> >>>>> This is a really great tutorial. >>>>> >>>>> -- John >>>>> >>>>> On Jul 10, 2014, at 5:54 AM, David P. Sanders <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> > Many thanks to all those who suffered my inane questions and helped >>>>> this to take shape, in particular: >>>>> > >>>>> > - Jeff, who persuaded me to try out Julia >>>>> > - Alonso & Luis, who convinced me that it was worth pursuing >>>>> > - The JuliaCon organizers, speakers, and participants >>>>> > - Leah for a couple of discussions about Julia tutorials >>>>> > - The Julia team at MIT who put up with me last week and moulded it: >>>>> Jiahao, Jake, Keno & Alan >>>>> > - Last, but not least, everybody who has answered my threads on >>>>> julia-users! >>>>> >>>>> >>>
