Yes, it will be supported eventually but I can't give a time frame.

On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 8:37:30 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
>
> OK, thanks Miles. I'll head to Optim.jl.
> Is there an intention to implement this functionality?
> Suggestion for julia-opt is noted, thanks again.
>
>
> On Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 12:24:05 PM UTC+11, Miles Lubin wrote:
>>
>> There's no syntax for this at the moment, it's a known issue. The problem 
>> is that JuMP's internal representation of nonlinear expressions doesn't 
>> allow vectors or matrices.
>> For the moment we're targeting the use cases where the function is low 
>> dimensional. For box-constrained nonlinear optimization you can use 
>> Optim.jl.
>>
>> (By the way, better to post questions like these to julia-opt 
>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/julia-opt>.)
>>
>> On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 6:50:50 PM UTC-5, [email protected] 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I have a nonlinear varargs function f(x...) that I'd like to maximize. 
>>> That is, the function is defined as follows:
>>>
>>> function f(x...)
>>>     # do stuff here
>>>     result
>>> end
>>>
>>> With a small number of arguments, for example 2, I can write the 
>>> following and get the correct result:
>>>
>>>     registerNLFunction(:f, 2, f, autodiff=true)
>>>     m = Model()
>>>     @defVar(m, x[1:2] >= 0.0)
>>>     @setNLObjective(m, Max, f(x[1], x[2]))
>>>
>>> With a large number of arguments, say 100, I'd prefer not to manually 
>>> write f(x[1], ..., x[100]) in the @setNLObjective macro.
>>> I have tried the following to no avail:
>>>     @setNLObjective(m, Max, f(x...))
>>>     @setNLObjective(m, Max, f(tuple(x...)))
>>>
>>> Is there a way to get this going for 100 variables without having to 
>>> manually write f(x[1], ..., x[100])?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jock
>>>
>>> p.s. Thanks for the great work on 0.12.0 - it's awesome.
>>>
>>>

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