(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
>

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