Version of your julia?

Mine is of today:

MM@lynne:~$ julia
               _
   _       _ _(_)_     |  A fresh approach to technical computing
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |  Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "help()" to list help topics
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 0.3.0-prerelease+2118 (2014-03-19 21:35
UTC)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Commit 6ea7022* (0 days old master)
|__/                   |  x86_64-redhat-linux

julia> ?typeof
Loading help data...
Base.typeof(x)

   Get the concrete type of "x".

julia>



On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk>wrote:

>
> On Thu, Mar 20 2014, Martin Maechler wrote:
>
> > As the subject says...
> >
> > Not a big issue, but a bit embarrassing notably for Julia
> > beginners.
> >
> > Note that  "C-c C-v <...>" nicely works (with IDO) to find Julia
> > help pages..
> > (but they typically have *no* examples, contrary to R's).
>
> Not sure I follow Martin.
>
> C-c C-v readdir RET brings up a help buffer.
>
> ?readdir at the repl brings the following error, both in a terminal and
> *julia* emacs buffer:
>
> julia> ?readdir
> ERROR: syntax: extra token "readdir" after end of expression
>
> Isn't this expected behaviour?  I think a julia user wouldn't expect
> ?topic to work at the prompt.  ? is reserved for the ternary
> if-elseif-else ternary:operator from C:
>
> julia> 3 == 2? 10 : 20
> 20
>
> Stephen
>
>

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