It should be pretty safe to start using 0.4 since we're about to enter a feature freeze and release process. The main issue is that many packages may not yet work on 0.4, so that part will be a bit rough.
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Simon Kornblith <[email protected]> wrote: > ArrayViews doesn't support indexing with ranges, vectors, etc. on Julia > 0.3, although this should work on Julia 0.4. (Also on 0.4, SubArrays > created with sub/slice should be equally fast as ArrayViews, and both > should be faster than on 0.3.) On 0.3 you need to write an explicit loop to > set multiple indices with ArrayViews. > > Simon > > > On Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 6:52:03 PM UTC-4, Yee Whye Teh wrote: >> >> Apologies, newbie to Julia here. >> >> I'm trying to use ArrayViews and ran into simple problem, where only the >> simplest setindex! usage (1 entry) works with a view, and anything >> involving more than one entry does not: >> >> *julia> **x = ones(4)* >> >> *4-element Array{Float64,1}:* >> >> * 1.0* >> >> * 1.0* >> >> * 1.0* >> >> * 1.0* >> >> >> *julia> **y=view(x,:)* >> >> *4-element ContiguousView{Float64,1,Array{Float64,1}}:* >> >> * 1.0* >> >> * 1.0* >> >> * 1.0* >> >> * 1.0* >> >> >> *julia> **x[1:2]=5 # ok* >> >> *5* >> >> >> *julia> **y[1]=5 # ok* >> >> *5* >> >> >> *julia> **y[1:2]=6 # not ok* >> >> *ERROR: `setindex!` has no method matching >> setindex!(::ContiguousView{Float64,1,Array{Float64,1}}, ::Int64, >> ::UnitRange{Int64})* >> >> >> >> (I realize that there was a previous post related, but for complex >> setindex! use. This one is very simple and I'd think should work?) >> >> cheers, >> -yw >> >
