Is there a github issue or discourse post that discusses why A[1,:] returns a column vector instead of a row vector (Adjoint) for a matrix A? From the pattern A[[1],:] return a 1xn matrix A[:,[1]] return a nx1 matrix A[:,1] return a column vector I was expecting A[1,:] to return a row vector. …

Indexing into Matrix

bengtjo August 31, 2020, 12:27am 5

It may be that issue 4774 and the JuliaCon talk “Taking vector transposes seriously” may give some historical context and useful links.

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