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If you'd like to know canonical programming style, you should read the code in Julia Base. Learning how to write good Julia is somewhat difficult because the language occupies an unfamiliar position between traditional static languages and traditional dynamic languages.

Can you provide some concrete examples of the functionality you're looking for? What exactly does "quick-and-dirty" code look like to you?

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I don't use "quick-and-dirty" as a derogatory term, so mostly I mean no error checking for rare occurrences or not ensuring correct values are being passed through. An example would be in Python if I just write MatrixA * MatrixB without any checking. I should check that they are both matrices if that is what I want, and that is what I did for reusable code. For one-off data analysis or computation, no-checking is certainly quick.

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