thank you for the information
On Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 11:13:24 PM UTC-4, Yichao Yu wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Jeffrey Sarnoff
> <jeffrey...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
> > here is an example of reinterpreting a subarray in v0.4:
> >
> > ```julia
> > julia> a=Int8[1,2,3,4]
> > 4-element Array{Int8,1}:
> > 1
> > 2
> > 3
> > 4
> >
> > julia> b=reinterpret(Uint8,a)
> > 4-element Array{UInt8,1}:
> > 0x01
> > 0x02
> > 0x03
> > 0x04
> >
> > julia> b=reinterpret(Uint8,a[2:3])
>
> Indexing does NOT currently return a SubArray on 0.4.
>
> > 2-element Array{UInt8,1}:
> > 0x02
> > 0x03
> > ```
> >
> > On Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 9:45:07 PM UTC-4, Sebastian Good wrote:
> >>
> >> I found myself trying to reinterpret a subarray today, and it didn't
> work.
> >> There are obviously plenty of cases where this makes no sense, but it
> would
> >> be convenient where it did. Is this on someone's roadmap? For instance:
> >>
> >> reinterpret(Int16, sub(readbytes(...), 5:10))
> >>
>
