Export Base.vect

[jariji]

vect is a nice function just like tuple (albeit with an ugly abbreviated name). I want to use it more easily. Can we export it?

help?> Base.vect
  vect(X...)


  Create a Vector with element type computed from the promote_typeof of the argument, containing the argument list.

  Examples
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  julia> a = Base.vect(UInt8(1), 2.5, 1//2)
  3-element Vector{Float64}:
   1.0
   2.5
   0.5

[adienes]

maybe if this is exported it should include documentation about when it would be appropriate to use over vec or collect or Vector

[jishnub]

Typically, one doesn't call vect directly, instead they use the literal vector construction syntax [1,2]. Do you intend to pass the function as an argument, possibly dispatching on it?

[DNF2]

Isn't Base.vect basically the same as vcat?

[jariji]

vcat concatenates the arguments; vect wraps the arguments in a new vector.

julia> vcat([1], [2])
2-element Vector{Int64}:
 1
 2

julia> Base.vect([1], [2])
2-element Vector{Vector{Int64}}:
 [1]
 [2]

They do both accept scalars but the scalar method of vcat should be removed #34395.