# Eye in julia 0.7

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**Created:** [March 19, 2018, 5:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/eye-in-julia-0-7/9820 "2018-03-19T17:30:21Z")\
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You can just use `one(A)` or `oneunit(A)` (depending on how you want to handle the dimensionful case) for the equivalent of `eye(A)` for square matrices.

(`eye` also worked for non-square matrices, but I don’t know of a non-verbose equivalent on 0.7.)

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