I’m getting to know Julia and found some quick little exercises at exercism.io ( http://exercism.io/languages/julia/exercises ). In the Nucleotide Count exercise, based on the runtests.jl file, the preferred Dict structure is: Dict(‘A’ => 0, ‘C’ => 0, ‘G’ => 0, ‘T’ => 0) Is this preferred to String …

Char vs. String for Dict key

mauro3 August 11, 2017, 3:06pm 4

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