I also like (and use) dispatch on values, using the Val{:symbol}
construction, but when I can I always hide it from the "user" even (when
important for performance). Personally, I think
chol(A, Val{:L})
is ugly and also confusing for novices.
I am wondering: Why is it necessary to use dispatch? Or, even if there is a
good reason, it would make a lot of sense (to me at least) to have an alias
LinAlg.chol(a::AbstractMatrix, uplo::Symbol) = LinAlg.chol(a,
Val{uplo})
with the old syntax?
Thanks, Christoph
