Good catch! Would you be willing to open a pull request to correct it? You can edit it directly on GitHub if you'd prefer: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/edit/master/doc/manual/arrays.rst
Thanks! On Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 2:08:58 PM UTC-4, passerby51 wrote: > > Hello, > > In the discussion of arrays in the manual, in the assignment section > <http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/manual/arrays/#assignment> it > says of this: > > A[I_1, I_2, ..., I_n] = X > > The it does the following: > > If X is an array, its size must be (length(I_1), length(I_2), ..., >> length(I_n)), and the value in location i_1, i_2, ..., i_n of A is >> overwritten with the valueX[I_1[i_1], I_2[i_2], ..., I_n[i_n]]. If X is >> not an array, its value is written to all referenced locations of A. > > > It seems to me that it should be this: > > If X is an array, its size must be (length(I_1), length(I_2), ..., > length(I_n)), and the value in location I_1[i_1], I_2[i_2], ..., I_n[i_n] > of A is overwritten with the valueXi_1, i_2, ..., i_n]. If X is not an > array, its value is written to all referenced locations of A. > > >
