Why don’t these do the same thing? julia> [1,2,3][1:2] 2-element Array{Int64,1}: 1 2 julia> first([1,2,3], 2) ERROR: MethodError: no method matching first(::Array{Int64,1}, ::Int64) Closest candidates are: first(::AbstractArray) at abstractarray.jl:270 first(::AbstractString, ::Integer) at s…

Why doesn't first(Array, Int64) work?

simeonschaub October 31, 2020, 8:44am 5

This is actually defined on master, so it will be in the upcoming Julia 1.6. See https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/34868 for reference.

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