Why I'm Betting On Julia

Re:Why I'm Betting On Julia by Pxtl on Friday January 24, 2014 @10:01AM (#7115147)

This isn't intrinsic to Matrices vs Number-Arrays. The matrix-mulitplication issue is just a mathy version of the plus-as-sting-concat troubles ("Foo: " + 1 + 1 makes "Foo: 11" while 1 + 1 + " Foo" makes "2 Foo"). There are always holy wars about whether "+" should be string-concat because of that.

Both approaches have their merits.

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Re:Why I'm Betting On Julia by wirrbel on Friday January 24, 2014 @12:28PM (#7116094)

I can rarely think of functions

    foo(arg)

where I would like to pass either strings or numbers that uses an operator + which polymorphically concats or performs addition. In this respect like languages that offer special string concatenating operators (like Haskell ++ or Lua with ..).

More generally: I think that + and * should always commute for the applied types and mixing them should follow the rules of associativity.

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