In 0.5-rc4 your code runs without any warnings. I think only the call
function was deprecated, not the :call symbol in an expression tree:
dump(:(f(3))) yields:
Expr
head: Symbol call
args: Array{Any}((2,))
1: Symbol f
2: Int64 3
typ: Any
Cheers,
Bart
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 9:32 AM Florian Oswald <florian.osw...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> i was trying to make sense of the final outcome of the discussion here
> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/13412, but no way. Also I'm not
> sure what to search for in the documentation (?Base.call tells me it's
> deprecated.)
>
> So:
>
> if up to now I programmatically evaluate a function f like that:
>
> f(x) = x^2
>
> eval(Expr(:call,f,3))
> 9
>
> what's the new way of doing that?
> cheers
> florian
>
