Thanks, it seems composite types is a perfect fit for most of my 
needs(required fields and their size will typically be known at time of 
type definition for the present problem). 

Regards, m

On Monday, February 16, 2015 at 6:57:57 PM UTC+1, Tim Holy wrote:
>
> Composite types are much higher performance but have no flexibility (you 
> can't 
> add new fields later). So which you choose depends on your use case. 
>
> --Tim 
>
> On Monday, February 16, 2015 09:38:13 AM Martin Johansson wrote: 
> > Yes, composite types could well be the answer! I'm still trying to find 
> out 
> > which choices would make the transition from Matlab easiest. This (old) 
> > discussion <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1263>didn't seem 
> to 
> > recommend one over the other (of Dicts and composite types). 
> > 
> > Regards, m 
> > 
> > On Monday, February 16, 2015 at 4:30:31 PM UTC+1, Johan Sigfrids wrote: 
> > > Could you not use a composite type for this? It would seem more Julian 
> to 
> > > me. 
>
>

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