What are the other uses of ; in Julia? I can only think of suppressing output on the REPL and separating expressions on a single line - neither seems inconsistent or really related at all to the use within [].
On Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 3:06:22 PM UTC-4, Scott Jones wrote: > > > > On Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 1:47:07 PM UTC-4, Sean Marshallsay wrote: >> >> [1:10;] is simply a consequence of matrix literal syntax (like [1:10; >> 11:20]) and gets translated into vcat(1:10). It might be a bit confusing >> but there's no point in making it a special case >> > > Yes, I understand that, and that too is not consistent with the use of ; > outside of [ ]. > spaces, colon, semicolon, and commas are all treated specially instead of > [ ], which can be rather confusing. > Some of that special behavior is being deprecated, but some remains. > >
