# Why \`eye\` has been deprecated?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-eye-has-been-deprecated/12824>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Created:** [August 2, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-eye-has-been-deprecated/12824 "2018-08-02T14:12:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Per](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/per/32/10387_2.png) [@Per](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Per)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 7:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-eye-has-been-deprecated/12824/24 "2018-08-03T07:11:54Z")

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> [@airpmb](#):
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> > I also get the sense that any time the devs have a chance to expunge Matlab idioms from the language, they take it.
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> Whether or not it’s accurate, you see the result–what is the issue that you have with it?

It seems you attributed that quote to the wrong person. I do quite a bit of coding in Matlab, and as a result there have been quite a few occasions where I’ve been annoyed with the quirks of that language. Every time Julia has moved away from Matlab syntax, I’ve found it made the language better. (I wish that they’d gotten rid of the hard-coded `f' = adjoint(f)` as well.)

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