This is a soft-question about an aspect of Julia’s design and history. It’s a well-discussed point that scalars are iterable, in the sense that: julia> 42[1], 42[], size(42), length(42) (42, 42, (), 1) julia> collect(42) 0-dimensional Array{Int64,0}: 42 I previously thought that a primary reason…

Why are scalars iterable when broadcasting would still work fine if they weren't?

stevengj July 26, 2022, 3:24am 3

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