> The authors of Julia argued that member functions are a bad idea, because it connects a function to a specific datatype That's actually the thing I love most

> The authors of Julia argued that member functions are a bad idea, because it connects a function to a specific datatype That's actually the thing I love most in Java-like languages. I want to type "foo." and see everything that I can do with foo. If it's not in auto complete -- it doesn't exist. Compare that with, for example, "len()" in other languages.