I’m just learning Julia, and I’m finding the docs not so clear on the differences between type and struct. In the docs there are no real examples of declaring custom types using the type keyword, instead there’s a section on composite types using struct. So I’m just pointing out that as a beginner t…

type (and immutable) are deprecated, just use mutable struct (or just struct).

Clarity on struct vs type

chobbes June 9, 2018, 2:37pm 18

Yes, I second!

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