The reason for dispatching is to make the chol function type stable.
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/10862
On Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 9:17:42 AM UTC+2, Christoph Ortner wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Thanks, Christoph
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