Why does Julia use begin/end as the block delimiter instead of the more common and concise { }? Why is that better?

[image] jar1: This seems a likely explanation given Matlab’s end syntax (though I don’t see a begin there). There’s another thing I forgot: in the early days of Julia, {a; b; c} and {a, b, c} were syntax for what is now Any[a; b; c] or Any[a, b, c], e.g. in Julia 0.3: julia> {3,4,5} 3-elemen…

Why begin/end instead of { } for block delimiter

Internals & Design

adienes November 3, 2022, 8:35pm 4

Unfortunately, Julia is not at that stage of development anymore. I hope this minor syntax choice will not be a blocker for you to explore the language.

2 Likes

Topic		Replies	Views
Shape() & beginswith() Internals & Design	5	1095	June 19, 2017
Using end variable in ranges passed to functions other than getindex? General Usage indexing	23	3397	March 29, 2023
Use of "end" in array element selection Performance	3	575	June 17, 2020
Range with end General Usage	7	6623	September 21, 2020
ranges and `end` token Internals & Design	3	1101	November 30, 2017

Why begin/end instead of { } for block delimiter

Related topics