Avoid [x;;] notation in formatted code

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Issue

It appears that the following fails the julia-formatter .dev/climaformat.jl

x = 3.0
one_by_one_mat = [x;;]

Instead, julia formatter will convert this to

x = 3.0
one_by_one_mat = [x] # <- no longer a matrix!

Which breaks tests.

Temporary solution

As this seems to be a funk in the JuliaFormatter package rather than the wrapper, I'd advise replacing it with

x = 3.0
one_by_one_mat = fill(x,1,1)

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Solution

Turns out this is just because julia formatter is outdated. Patching works. And maybe we should include this directory (and maybe docs/ in compat-helper

One update would be:

name: CompatHelper

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * *'
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  CompatHelper:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - uses: julia-actions/install-juliaup@v1

      - name: Install CompatHelper
        run: julia -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.add("CompatHelper")'

      - name: Run CompatHelper
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          COMPATHELPER_PRIV: ${{ secrets.COMPATHELPER_PRIV }}
        run: |
          julia -e '
            using CompatHelper
            CompatHelper.main(
                subdirs=[
                    "",
                    "docs",
                    ".dev",
                ]
            )
          '

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NB it turns out that maybe dependabot is the preferred tooling now over compathelper...