# Style question: replacing multidimensional collect with broadcast

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/style-question-replacing-multidimensional-collect-with-broadcast/23464>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [April 24, 2019, 8:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/style-question-replacing-multidimensional-collect-with-broadcast/23464 "2019-04-24T08:07:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![rdeits](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rdeits/32/286_2.png) [@rdeits](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rdeits)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 8:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/style-question-replacing-multidimensional-collect-with-broadcast/23464/3 "2019-04-24T20:31:48Z")

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How about this `outer()` function? [Outer broadcasting? - #6 by rdeits](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/outer-broadcasting/22701/6)

Or we could turn that into a macro so that the result would fuse (I think) with any outer broadcasting operations.

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