Hi, I have just discovered the catch with passing array slices to a function that is to modify the array entries. “view” is the solution. ( 9792 ). The rub is, that while c[:,i] is a plain ol’ vector, view(c,:,i) has some complicated type. Logical enough, but throws a spanner in the works of my dis…

[image] Philippe_Maincon1: I do not consider it an option to rewrite initstrict! to accept (“vectors or any vector-like view”) Why not? Is it important that the function accepts only Vector{Float64} and not AbstractVector{Float64}?

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sostock August 7, 2020, 8:01am 2

Why not? Is it important that the function accepts only Vector{Float64} and not AbstractVector{Float64}?

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