+1 Vector and Array
On Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 9:51:37 AM UTC-4, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > > Le jeudi 26 mai 2016 à 09:03 -0400, Stefan Karpinski a écrit : > > Perhaps these should be called Vector and Array? As in Vector(f(x) > > for x in A) and Array(f(x) for x in A). > Cf. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/16029 > > > > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Jeffrey Sarnoff > > <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > > I hope Julia is not ready to drop the immediacy of clarity when it > > > is new-found and current use adjacent (e.g. "shape-preserving > > > f(g(x) for x in A)"). > > > It is reasonable that `collect` become this better version of its > > > prior self; and, if desired, a vector-only version would have a new > > > name or way of indication. > > > `collectvec( __ )` might do `reshape( (__), prod(size(__)) )` > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, so far this is intended. We want a shape-preserving > > > > `collect` for > > > > implementing comprehensions, for example `collect(2x for x in > > > > A)`. > > > > However a case could be made that `collect` should continue to > > > > return > > > > only vectors, and the shape-preserving version should have a new > > > > name. > > > > > > > > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 3:41 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I am not sure if this is the right place to post questions > > > > about version > > > > > 0.5.0-, but I'll give it a try anyhow. > > > > > > > > > > In 0.4.5, collect([1 2]) gives Array{Int64,1}, like a column > > > > vector. > > > > > > > > > > In 0.5.0_ (as of 25 May, Win64), collect([1 2]) gives > > > > Array{Int64,2}, like a > > > > > row vector. > > > > > > > > > > Is this intended? (...just struggling to prepare for the next > > > > release) > > > > > > > > > > /Paul S > > > > >
