Subtleties of type and immutable and memory layout when using ccall

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Create a type with pointer to array

hi all, I’m new to Julia, and still getting used to the Julia-way of doing things. I was wondering if there is anything that would work as a pointer would in C, or as a reference variable in C++? the particular use case I have in mind is as follows. suppose I create a new type, called “Coord”, that will store a particular coordinate system. immutable Coord val::Array{Real} name::AbstractString end and use it to create my coordinate x: x0 = 0:0.05:1 x = Coord(x0, "mycoord") Now I w…

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