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Wilfred Hughes

Mar 16, 2017 at 21:54

Julia is changing its keywords to make semantics more obvious and to encourage immutability: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-new-keywords-for-defining-types/2029

PSA: New keywords for defining types

PSA: New keywords for defining types

In a rather disruptive, but I think worthwhile, change, we now have different keywords for defining types. Here’s a quick summary: immutable changes to struct type changes to mutable struct abstract changes to abstract type ... end bitstype 32 Char changes to primitive type Char 32 end The PR that did this: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/20418 Kristoffer has a helpful script for the struct part of the change here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/20418#issuecomment-27...