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--Tim On Friday, January 02, 2015 04:56:05 AM [email protected] wrote: > And more generally, sections for C++ and java in Noteworthy Differences > <http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual/noteworthy-differences/> > would be useful. Except, I'm thinking of not only syntactic differences, > but rather how very common features or idioms in C++ are done in Julia. A > colleague asked if Julia supports objects. I said; yes, well not really, > but you do it like this. A section like that could quickly show whether you > can do what you want with Julia. > > On Thursday, January 1, 2015 2:23:39 AM UTC+1, Josh Langsfeld wrote: > > I currently am trying to solve a problem where I have many composite types > > and I would like to associate some data with each type, such that every > > instance has access to it. Obviously, in C++ I would just create a static > > member variable. > > > > Is there a good way to go about this in Julia? Currently, I have it > > working by using a global Dict mapping DataType objects to their > > associated > > data but I really don't like this. Something more naive like just adding > > that field to every object instance also strikes me as unnecessary and > > wasteful. I haven't seen any significant discussion about static fields on > > the lists or on github so is this something that could be considered for > > addition to the language? > > > > Thanks, > > Josh
