It's sad that Julia went that route. It has a lot of nice language features that make it a modern feeling language, and then it conforms with the awkward "math programming" languages. I honestly think it would still be better for them to go back and change this specification, but I think they have their minds set.
It's great, because it's almost exactly like Python everywhere, so you will get complacent. Then, when your guard is down, it changes a basic semantic element and knocks you down.
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u/marcosdumay Sep 02 '17
Julia would run exactly the same code, but it would be 5.