Sure, it gives freedom. But if you are reading someone else code it means you have to learn all the possible ways. And it may lead to unexpected inconsistencies. Some examples. Use the new package manager (using Pkg): pkg> add DataFrames julia> pkg"add DataFrames" julia> Pkg.add("DataFrames"…

Thinking about the issue in general, I am not sure that avoiding multiple ways to do the same specific thing is a viable design principle for a language with a rich type system, (informal) interfaces tied to generic functions, and multiple dispatch. For example, think about z = 1:3 map(x -> x + 1,…

Too many ways to do the same thing in Julia

General Usage

jonathanBieler August 24, 2018, 9:18am 7

This one seems like a bug to be honest (or maybe it’s a compatibility thing).

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Too many ways to do the same thing in Julia

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