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Jan 24, 2017 at 23:29
Thoughtful, interesting piece on why Julia is adding syntax to force vectorisation of code:
More Dots: Syntactic Loop Fusion in Julia
More Dots: Syntactic Loop Fusion in Julia
More Dots: Syntactic Loop Fusion in Julia | After a lengthy design process (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8450) and preliminary foundations in Julia 0.5 (/blog/2016-10-11-julia-0.5-highlights#vectorized_function_calls), Julia 0.6 includes new facilities for writing code in the

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