Are there similar plans to revamp sparse matrices? (I'd like to start getting informed as early as possible).
On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 2:14:53 AM UTC-7, Tim Holy wrote: > > On Thursday, September 17, 2015 11:55:56 PM harven wrote: > > I see that there are many changes scheduled for arrays in the next > release. > > Can someone summarize what is planned? > > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/13157 > > > I understand that [,] will become non concatenating. What will be the > type > > of expressions such as > > > > ["julia", [1, 1.0]] > > > > Any, union{AbstractString, Array{Float64}}? > > Presumably an Arrary{Any,1}, though Array{Union{ASCIIString, > Array{Float64,1}}, 1} is also a possibility. > > > > > Will the following code return an error or an array of some type? > > > > push!(["one", [1, 5.1]], 1.5) > > Depends on the above > > > Is there some syntactic sugar planned for Any arrays, in the spirit of > {}? > > Almost certainly not. Braces are in short supply, Any[] is easy. There is > little enthusiasm for burning diamonds to heat the house :-). > > --Tim > >
