# Zeros, ones, array construction redesign

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/zeros-ones-array-construction-redesign/7149
**Category:** Internals & Design
**Created:** [November 18, 2017, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/zeros-ones-array-construction-redesign/7149 "2017-11-18T13:54:43Z")
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### Author: ![ScottPJones](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/scottpjones/32/146_2.png) [@ScottPJones](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ScottPJones)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/zeros-ones-array-construction-redesign/7149/5 "2017-11-20T14:06:22Z")

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Actually, I wasn’t really concerned about whether it was 2, 3, or 4 characters extra in those cases, it seems to me a small price to pay to have the base language have one consistent and generic method, instead of a couple Matlab legacy names (which I don’t want eliminated, just moved, along with some other Matlab functions that don’t have a good Julian name, such as cumsum/cumprod, to a Matlab compatibility package, so the only change for people who want those names would be to add `using Matlab` or some such, to their code).

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