Julia 1.0 - Hackdot

Re:Julia 1.0 by stellalo on Thursday August 09, 2018 @06:57PM (#17729264)

I haven’t, so far, encountered a single occasion in which I would need to manually flatten-deflatten indices: Julia has multidimensional arrays of any dimension N, and you can access their content in a linear fashion without any effort (simply provide one index instead of N)

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Re:Julia 1.0 by kazinator on Thursday August 09, 2018 @10:22PM (#17730229)

Still, the implementation has to internally do ABC(z - 1) + AB(y - 1) + A(x - 1), compensating for the pointless bias at every dimension.

It's just a wanton complication, like insisting on Roman numerals instead of a radix enumeration.

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Re:Julia 1.0 by stellalo on Friday August 10, 2018 @05:21AM (#17731810)

Well, I’d say the analogy with Arabic vs Roman numerals is a bit of a stretch. Seriously, it is just a matter of shifting by one, humanity has much bigger problems to focus on!

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Re:Julia 1.0 by pjmlp on Friday August 10, 2018 @01:13AM (#17730853)

The implementation already has to do lots of internal stuff to map high level language abstractions to actual real hardware capabilities, index calculations is just another one.

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