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,
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
