On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 11:01:06 AM UTC-4, Yuuki Soho wrote: > > On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 4:21:11 PM UTC+2, Kevin Squire wrote: >> >> Just a note, Matlab-style [a b] concatenation has been deprecated in >> Julia v0.4 >> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FJuliaLang%2Fjulia%2Fpull%2F7998&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHmqjCKqnOsfMc-5YrBN-fIFYYxmQ>. >> >> See the linked issues for details. The main issue is that this >> functionality makes it challenging to create arrays of arrays (or arrays of >> ranges), which are less useful in Matlab, but quite useful for general >> programming. >> > > As I understand it, only [a, b] is deprecated, with [a b] and [a; b] still > being valid horizontal and vertical concatenation. > > I find a bit inconsistent that [a b] means something different when a and > b are string as opposed to arrays, but maybe that rest upon the wrong idea > that string are array-like objects. >
Why is it a wrong idea that strings array-like objects? If you need to use mutable strings (which is most cases for what I'm doing), you need to treat strings as vectors. Scott
