This was discussed at length here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5949
And is featured in NEWS.md: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/NEWS.md#julia-v050-release-notes Many languages do drop scalar-indexed dimensions, for instance Python/Numpy. On Mon, 2016-09-26 at 00:32, Joshua Jones <highly.creative.pseudo...@gmail.com> wrote: > The change to indexing within matrices in 0.5.0 is fundamentally > counterintuitive. For example: > > julia> frame32 = randn(16,7); > > julia> size(frame32[1,:]) > (7,) > > julia> size(frame32[1:1,:]) > (1,7) > > To be quite blunt, I think this is a terrible contradiction. It completely > breaks the repmat syntax that people have used in other languages for more > than 20 years. To obtain what my code *was* doing last week, I now need to > do one of: > julia> repmat(frame32[1,:]', 16, 1) > julia> repmat(frame32[1:1,:], 16, 1) > > In plain English, my code needs to take the transpose of an extracted row > for the result to be a row vector. Isn't this the very definition of > nonreflexive syntax?
