This will be a ridiculous charicature, but this issue has come up so many
times that I think a little charicaturization is timely.
With regards to arrays and views, the "big change" in julia 0.5 will
essentially be a 1-line change:
getindex(A, indexes...) = slice(A, indexes...)
Since slice is already in base, you can use it today :-).
There's much more to it than that: SubArrays don't always check bounds, so
currently this is At Your Own Risk. There are some difficulties in reshaping
SubArrays.
But if the fundamental question is, "can I have performant and very flexible
views?" the answer is: you already have them.
Best,
--Tim
On Friday, October 23, 2015 04:36:03 AM Michael Hatherly wrote:
> It’s planned for 0.5. See https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/13157
> which covers all the planned changes I think.
>
> — Mike
>
>
> On Friday, 23 October 2015 13:14:56 UTC+2, Neal Becker wrote:
> > One feature I've been eager to see is that array slices become views,
> > which
> > I think was targeted for 0.4. Is this correct? I hate to see un-needed
> > copying.
