Lex, check out Tim's suggestion here <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-users/GXH8UBFYd0U/iiuXZswbaJUJ>. I believe this can also be done with a let binding, but I can't seem to find the reference and my Julia is compiling so I can't rework the incantation atm. Thanks for documenting!
Jason On Friday, January 2, 2015 4:54:51 PM UTC-6, [email protected] wrote: > > Am waiting for an answer to the question about a mutable version before > adding doc. > > Cheers > Lex > > On Saturday, January 3, 2015 12:18:58 AM UTC+10, Tim Holy wrote: >> >> Adding documentation is a great way for users to contribute! See the >> CONTRIBUTING.md file if you're new to this. >> >> --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 >> >>
