# What happened to Base.colon?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-happened-to-base-colon/16513>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [October 19, 2018, 12:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-happened-to-base-colon/16513 "2018-10-19T00:48:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Liso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/898d66/32.png) [@Liso](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Liso)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 10:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-happened-to-base-colon/16513/15 "2018-10-24T10:08:04Z")

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> [@carstenbauer](#):
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> Although I agree that many people seem to have missed the v0.7 memo, I think it is important to realize that v0.7 is really only relevant for people who have already used Julia before v0.7, that is in a phase where it was common knowledge that new Julia versions will certainly break things.
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> Those people aren’t _new Julia users_ .

There are people who starts to learn language by trying examples. And you really could find some in older version.

For example [chess board](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/chess-game/16417/29) from @jonathanBieler where newbie has to “fix” `linspace`… (I don’t think that installing 0.7 in that case is best idea)

> [@carstenbauer](#):
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> … and just point them to the relevant information without too many words. I don’t think that’s rude in any way but rather efficient.

I agree.

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