I've started to work mostly with Julia 0.4 recently since has a lot of useful tools for me. I noticed the following error message:
"indexing with non Integer Reals is deprecated" I guess this is due to Issue https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/10154. I may well be missing a crucial point here, but I think it is a huge mistake to take this step and it is taking Julia in the wrong direction. It feels to be something along the lines of "premature optimisation". For casual scripting, or just quick testing, teaching numerical computing to beginners, converting from Matlab, and probably for many other reasons, not having to worry about types is really important. More generally, it is important to keep the option of very simple (Matlab-style) Julia. I wonder whether users could come up with other examples where "simplicity, convenience" are sacrificed for "performance, elegance of design, etc" ? Christoph
