Aside from the wonderful suggestions of the community, I’ve moved the thread out out “Internals & Design” to “General Usage”, since most of the questions in your list are already quite possible, except that they use different syntax than Matlab. To that regard, please note that the general feel of julia is done and probably won’t change much in the feature (though genuinely new feature requests are of course still welcome!)
Also, see this thread for a bit more info about this:
