# Julia 1.0 released

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-0-released/13208>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [August 11, 2018, 12:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-0-released/13208 "2018-08-11T00:10:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-0-released/13208/41 "2018-08-24T15:09:56Z")

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> [@mcbro](#):
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> 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](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/shorthand-for-1-2-3-4-1/12526/11):
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> 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…

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