Seconded. If anyone has time to just record a 5 minute screencast of "working productively in Julia" I think he or she would have a moderately sized but very appreciative audience.
On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 4:45:13 AM UTC-6, Tamas Papp wrote: > > Hi, > > I am wondering what the best workflow is for iterative/exploratory > programming (as opposed to, say, library development). I feel that my > questions below all have solutions, it's just that I am not experienced > enough in Julia to figure them out. > > The way I have been doing it so far: > 1. open a file in the editor, > 2. start `using` some libraries, > 3. write a few functions, load data, plot, analyze > 4. rewrite functions, repeat 2-4 until satisfied. > > I usually end up with a bunch of functions, followed by the actual > runtime code. > > However, I run into the following issues (or, rather, inconveniences) > with nontrivial code: > > a. If I redefine a function, then I have to recompile dependent > functions, which is tedious and occasionally a source of bugs > (cf. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/265 ) > > b. I can't redefine types. > > I can solve both by restarting (`workspace()`), but then I have to > reload & recompile everything. > > I am wondering if there is a more organized way of doing this --- eg put > some stuff in a module in a separate file and just keep reloading that, > etc. Any advice, or pointers to tutorials would be appreciated. > > I am using Emacs/ESS. > > Also, is there a way to unintern symbols (a la CL) that would solve the > type redefinition issue? > > Best, > > Tamas >
