(a) teaching: it is easy to explain to beginners what an array is, not so much abstract range objects
(b) occasionally I actually need the vector and am just too lazy to write collect (c) compatibility with history (i.e. Matlab) I appreciate that all of these are to some extent personal preference. On Monday, 29 August 2016 23:43:31 UTC+1, Júlio Hoffimann wrote: > > Christoph, > > Can you elaborate on why you want to have both? Also, why you wanted the > non-lazy linspace? If I understood correctly, you're talking about > returning a array with allocated memory versus a range object, isn't the > latter always preferred? I don't understand. > > -Júlio >
