It's fine to play with, and there are definitely worthwhile improvements, just want to be clear that there's still a fair number of impactful changes being made, and bugs to be squished.
On Friday, April 24, 2015 at 10:49:38 AM UTC-5, Sisyphuss wrote: > > Thanks, Patrick ! > > Frightened by the word "unstable", I do not dare to use it anymore. > Expecting the version 0.4 to be released soon! > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Patrick O'Leary <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> The master branch of the git repository is currently version 0.4-dev, >> which is in an unstable development phase. The relevant downloads are at >> the bottom of http://julialang.org/downloads/ under "Nightly Builds". >> >> >> On Friday, April 24, 2015 at 5:47:37 AM UTC-5, Sisyphuss wrote: >>> >>> Thanks Tomas! >>> >>> By the way, I built Julia from the source, and I got the version 0.3. Do >>> you know how I can get the version 0.4? >>> >>> >>> >>> On Friday, April 24, 2015 at 12:21:17 PM UTC+2, Tomas Lycken wrote: >>>> >>>> To be concise: Yes, and yes :) >>>> >>>> Instead of `float32(x)` and the like, 0.4 uses constructor methods >>>> (`Float32(x)` returns a `Float32`, just as `Foo(x)` returns a `Foo`...). >>>> >>>> // T >>>> >>>> On Friday, April 24, 2015 at 11:40:02 AM UTC+2, Sisyphuss wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I mean is there a syntax change from version 0.3 to version 0.4? >>>>> >>>>> Is "float32()"-like minuscule conversion going to be deprecated? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Friday, April 24, 2015 at 9:58:18 AM UTC+2, Tim Holy wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm not sure what your question is, but the documentation is correct >>>>>> in both >>>>>> cases. You can also use the Compat package, which allows you to write >>>>>> x = @compat Float32(y) >>>>>> even on julia 0.3. >>>>>> >>>>>> --Tim >>>>>> >>>>>> On Friday, April 24, 2015 12:35:01 AM Sisyphuss wrote: >>>>>> > To convert a number to the type Float32, >>>>>> > >>>>>> > In 0.3 doc: float32() >>>>>> > In 0.4 doc: Float32() >>>>>> >>>>>> >
