> > So in conclusion, I really was overusing collect().
Yup... and this is one reason I think the change is valuable... it helps make people think "why did they do this??" if there is a way to avoid collect() for a matrix operation, I'd love to > know. What type of operation do you mean? Maybe there's a way? If you're referring to your example above, you can of course do: ones(5)*(0:0.01:1)' Or if you really want to take advantage of minimal allocations: linspace(1,1,5)*(0:0.01:1)' (Of course the matrix allocation outweighs the temporaries in this example...) On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks. > > On 7 March 2016 at 15:10, Tamas Papp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> See >> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7941 >> and the related issues, particularly >> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/2488 >> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3737 >> >> Best, >> >> Tamas >> >> On Mon, Mar 07 2016, Daniel Carrera wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > In the last major release of Julia some syntax was deprecated. For >> example: >> > >> > {"a" => 3} # Deprecated. Use Dict("a" => 3) >> > >> > [1:10] # Deprecated. Use collect(1:10) >> > >> > There was also a change with the commas, but I can't remember what it >> is. >> > Some times I get an error saying that apparently I'm supposed to use a >> > semicolon, but I can't remember when that happens. >> > >> > Anyway, I miss the earlier cleaner syntax. Mainly, I don't like >> > "collect(1:10)". I don't mind Dict(), because it's not something I write >> > very often, and "Dict" is short enough. But I don't like having to write >> > "collect(1:10)" as often as I do. Can someone explain what happened? >> What >> > was wrong with the original syntax? MATLAB has managed to survive with >> the >> > [1:10] syntax for a long time, so I don't see why it's so terrible. >> > >> > In general, I like compact syntax and that is one of the reasons why I >> > switched to Julia. I would rather not see Julia become more verbose over >> > time. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Daniel. >> >> >
