autograd: user custom function

[iblislin]

• an example included: examples/autograd/customfunc.jl

@vchuravy Could you review the GC-related part of this PR?

TODO:

• [x] support where syntax for @custom

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[iblislin]

ready for review

[jekbradbury]

Any idea what's going wrong with GitHub's triple quote detection such that it thinks the whole autograd.jl is quoted? In any case this is pretty cool -- something I'd assumed was impossible, and something (fast custom native functions in the frontend's language!) that the Python frontend can never, ever offer.

[iblislin]

Any idea what's going wrong with GitHub's triple quote detection such that it thinks the whole autograd.jl is quoted?

It was an issue of JuliaEditorSupport/atom-language-julia, and fixed in latest release. Just waiting github upgrade their dependency. See: https://github.com/github/linguist/issues/3950