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Re:Julia: A Fast Language for Numerical Computing by erikpukinskis on Monday March 14, 2016 @06:51PM (#11286139)
> For example I'd be happy if I could generate structs dynamically, based on string input.

I don't understand why you'd want to do that. That sounds like an architecture you are excited about, not a problem you are trying to solve. Can you give me some context?

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Re:Julia: A Fast Language for Numerical Computing by samuell on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @05:51AM (#11288519)
The reason is a practical one: Struct fields will show up in auto-completion. This is in our experience surprisingly important when doing iterative workflow development, to lower the amount of silly typo errors, which can waste a lot of cluster compute hours etc.
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