Julia 1.0 released

[StefanKarpinski]

@mcbro

I also found the removal of broadcasting for the + operator intolerable. How often does one write something like indices+1 in your code? Now I have to search for + and replace it with the unwieldy .+ remembering to surround it with spaces. Is it really that hard to determine the intention of +(Array{T}, {T}) ?

Shorthand for [[1,2],[3,4]] .+ 1

It may surprise you (based on your apparently dim view of our decision making process), that the deprecation of A + 1 was not done just to annoy people and be pedantic, but with careful deliberation for mathematical reasons. Mathematicians tend to like + to be associative, which was no longer the case when A + 1 with Matlab-like behavior was allowed in combination with uniform scaling objects (I)—a uniquely Julian and very powerful feature. (It is left as an exercise for the reader to figure out…