Should also mention that even when ["1", ["1","2","3"]] returns a two
element Vector{Any}, the inner array will still get inferred to be
Vector{ASCIIString} unless you add the Any prefix.
On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 12:30:28 PM UTC-5, Josh Langsfeld wrote:
>
> Your conclusion is correct. The final switch should happen pretty soon on
> 0.5 master. Until then, the work-around is to prefix all your brackets with
> 'Any', including the inner arrays.
>
> On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 12:20:15 PM UTC-5, [email protected]
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Julia seems cool! Vector literals have me completely stumped though. A
>> little help?
>> What is going on here?
>>
>> ["1","1"] => ASCIIString["1","1"]
>> ["1",["1"]] => ASCIIString["1","1"] + "WARNING: [a,b] concatenation is
>> deprecated; use [a;b] instead"
>> ["1",Any["1"]] => ASCIIString["1","1"] + "WARNING: [a,b] concatenation is
>> deprecated; use [a;b] instead"
>> Any["1",["1"]] => Any["1", ASCIIString["1"]] # not what I want, the
>> second array should be general purpose a la python
>>
>> Basically I just want general heterogeneous lists like python.
>>
>> I read about the {} syntax somewhere which does exactly what I want, but
>> I keep getting deprecation warnings, so I'd rather not poke that dragon.
>> It seems based on the fact that ["1",["1"]] generates a deprecated
>> warning about behaving wrong, and {"1",{"1"}} is completely deprecated
>> syntax that at some point, ["1",["1"]] should do what I want it to, but
>> this feature has somehow been only half migrated over?
>>
>> Help!
>>
>> Vishesh
>>
>
