Re:Possible Python rival? Programming language Julia is winn...
by nur0n on Sunday September 02, 2018 @02:37PM
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I hadn't seen these cartoons before. I had a good laugh :)
More seriously: there are very limited cases where indexing explicitly into an array using literals is The Right Thing to do. It's almost always better to use `map(fn, xs)`, `foreach(fn, xs)`, `for x in xs; fn(x); end`, ... .
If you really wanted to, you can even do:
for i in firstindex(xs):lastindex(xs)
x = xs[i]
end
More seriously: there are very limited cases where indexing explicitly into an array using literals is The Right Thing to do. It's almost always better to use `map(fn, xs)`, `foreach(fn, xs)`, `for x in xs; fn(x); end`, ... .
If you really wanted to, you can even do: