Simon Kornblith

I don't know if it passes all the tests, but you can't just flip the switch, since it will break reading older JLD files.

In [JLD2](https://github.com/simonster/JLD2.jl) (which I have to finish at some point; it is mostly done, just needs compression and maybe user-defined groups), this is already what happens. Also fields that aren't...

The code in the JLD2 repository will eventually move here, but the JLD API won't change much, and we'll always maintain the ability to read older JLD files.

It would be good to make sure that this doesn't change things for JLD, e.g. that Float16 values saved with JLD and the previous version of HDF5 can still be...

Broken by #99, so not related to #47. cc @vtjnash

This is most likely specific to undefined string fields. It doesn't happen with arbitrary non-pointerfree types. I'm not sure whether libhdf5 would let us specify an undefined string field using...

A while ago, @tkelman tried to figure out how to make `mmaparrays` work on Windows, but he was unsuccessful (https://github.com/JuliaIO/HDF5.jl/issues/89).

@pagnani Did you set `INLINE_TUPLE = true`? Does this happen without that change?

AFAIK no one has volunteered to work on PLS, but we are always open to contributions!

The `mat` string literal tries to return the result of the MATLAB expression. The problem is that MATLAB apparently does not always support getting all types of objects via the...