Hi everyone, I started using Julia since last Saturday for my PhD work. My background in programming is mostly C++, C, and some non-performance-oriented MATLAB. I have never used R. Despite my lack of modern programming languages, I was able to convert some of my previous prototype code from MATLAB within hours. Thank you all for your hard work in contributing to this language!
I have some questions about the format of the documentation. Consider the *sparse(I, J, V[, m, n, combine]**)* function. After some trial-and-error at 3am, I finally figured out I just add *m* and *n* to the argument list of *sparse()* if I wish to specify the size of the sparse matrix with this constructor function. 1) Does this mean the notation [, blah, blah2, ...] in the documentation mean "blah, blah2, ..." are all optional arguments? 2) If this a standard notation across other modern object-oriented languages, would it be possible to make a wikipedia link to this notation, and put it on the tutorial or the documentation page? If this isn't a standard notation, would it be possible to include a short example in the documentation?
