JuliaLang/julia — comment on commit a0961e5df69da9f736ac8cb54a1186433fa6c1ba
File: j/array.j line 98
By JeffBezanson:

This doesn't behave the same anymore, since it used to promote first.
Old version:

julia> linspace(1,2.0,10)
[1.0, 1.11111111, 1.22222222, 1.33333333 ... 1.77777778, 1.88888889, 2.0]

New version:

julia> linspace(1,2.0,10)
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2]

I'd rather not have Type arguments in cases that can be handled using the types of the values involved.