Yes, probably - thanks for the tip! I'll see if I can cook something up...

On Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 1:45:32 AM UTC+1, Benjamin Deonovic wrote:
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> Can mapslices help here?
>
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> On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 6:59:59 PM UTC-5, Tomas Lycken wrote:
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>> Is there an effective pattern to iterate over the “endpoints” of an array 
>> along a given dimension?
>>
>> What I eventually want to accomplish is to apply a function (in this case 
>> an equality test) to the two end points along a particular dimension of an 
>> array. I think the pattern is easiest explained by considering 1D, 2D and 
>> 3D:
>>
>> # assume the existence of some scalar-valued function f(x,y)
>>
>> A1 = rand(10)
>> f(A1[1], A1[end]) # d == 1 (the only possible value) -> one evaluation
>>
>> A2 = rand(10, 15)
>> map(f, A2[1,:], A2[end,:]) # d == 1 -> 15 evaluations
>> map(f, A2[:,1], A2[:,end]) # d == 2 -> 10 evaluations
>>
>> A3 = rand(10, 15, 8)
>> map(f, A3[1,:,:], A3[end,:,:]) # d == 1 -> 15x8 evaluations
>> map(f, A3[:,1,:], A3[:,end,:]) # d == 2 -> 10x8 evaluations
>> map(f, A3[:,:,1], A3[:,:,end]) # d == 3 -> 10x15 evaluations
>>
>> I just want to consider one dimension at a time, so given A and d, and 
>> in this specific use case I don’t need to collect the results, so a 
>> for-loop without an allocated place for the answer instead of a map is 
>> just fine (probably preferrable, but it’s easier to go in that direction 
>> than in the other). What I’m struggling with, is how to generally formulate 
>> the indexing expressions (like [<d-1 instances of :>, 1, <size(A,d)-d 
>> instances of :>], but not in pseudo-code…). I assume this can be done 
>> somehow using CartesianIndexes and/or CartesianRanges, but I can’t get 
>> my mind around to how. Any help is much appreciated.
>>
>> // T
>> ​
>>
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