Just curious: linspace returns a Range object, but logspace returns a
vector because there is no much use case for a LogRange object?

@feza: I have also seen the deprecation warning going away after a couple
of calls, but I am not sure why. If you restart Julia, the deprecations
reappear.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 5:40 AM, feza <[email protected]> wrote:

> Strange it *was* giving me an error saying deprecated and that I should
> use collect, but now it's fine.
>
>
> On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 10:28:12 PM UTC-4, Sheehan Olver wrote:
>>
>> fez, I'm pretty sure the code works fine without the collect: when exp is
>> called on linspace it converts it to a vector.  Though the returned t will
>> be linspace object.
>>
>> On Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 12:10:55 PM UTC+10, feza wrote:
>>>
>>> Here's the code I was using where I needed to use collect (I've been
>>> playing around with Julia, so any suggestions on this code for perf is
>>> welcome ;) ) . In general linspace (or the : notation)  is also used
>>> commonly to lay  a grid in space for solving a PDE for some other use
>>> cases.
>>>
>>> function gp(n)
>>> n = convert(Int,n)
>>> t0 = 0
>>> tf = 5
>>> t = collect( linspace(t0, tf, n+1) )
>>> sigma = exp( -(t - t[1]) )
>>>
>>> c = [sigma; sigma[(end-1):-1:2]]
>>> lambda = fft(c)
>>> eta = sqrt(lambda./(2*n))
>>>
>>> Z = randn(2*n) + im*randn(2*n)
>>> x = real( fft( Z.*eta ) )
>>> return (x, t)
>>> end
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 8:59:52 PM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm curious why you need a vector rather than an object. Do you mutate
>>>> it after creating it? Having linspace return an object instead of a
>>>> vector was a bit of a unclear judgement call so getting feedback would
>>>> be good.
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, September 29, 2015, Patrick Kofod Mogensen <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> No:
>>>>>
>>>>> julia> logspace(0,3,5)
>>>>> 5-element Array{Float64,1}:
>>>>>     1.0
>>>>>     5.62341
>>>>>    31.6228
>>>>>   177.828
>>>>>  1000.0
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 8:50:47 PM UTC-4, Luke Stagner wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thats interesting. Does logspace also return a range?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 5:43:28 PM UTC-7, Chris wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In 0.4 the linspace function returns a range object, and you need to
>>>>>>> use collect() to expand it. I'm also interested in nicer syntax.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>

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