Re: [julia-users] Metaprogramming and Dispatch

The branch on the first version will be eliminated. The second version is far more idiomatic, however. Consider that the second version is trivially extensible to more types while the first version cannot be extended at all. On Tuesday, September 29, 2015, Matt wrote: > I

Re: [julia-users] Metaprogramming and Dispatch

As Stefan mentioned, the `@generated` function below is equivalent to the first function you posted, except that it is worse style since it is not extensible, will generally require more memory, it is less readable (and it seems to be giving the wrong answer for N > 2 and N == 0?) The Julia-style

Re: [julia-users] Metaprogramming and Dispatch

Hey, Sorry I'm not sure what you're referring too. Just to clarify. I have written 3 functions in the first subject. The first function uses run time dispatch, the second use sub-auxiliary functions at every differing line, the third uses the @eval style. I like the syntax of the first

Re: [julia-users] Metaprogramming and Dispatch

Thanks for answering. Sorry I deleted my question after finding what I wanted. If some people are interested, I like the two solutions below: for t in (Vector, Matrix) @eval begin function f2(x::$t) println("I'm an array") $(t == Vector ? :(println("I'm a