I read quickly and misinterpreted what he was trying to do. Carry on.

--Tim

On Thursday, February 20, 2014 01:09:00 PM Fil Mackay wrote:
> On Thursday, February 20, 2014 11:06:36 PM UTC+11, Tim Holy wrote:
> > On Thursday, February 20, 2014 03:17:19 AM Carlos Becker wrote:
> > > Thanks Mauro, I think that is good enough for what I am trying to do.
> > > The return type is already a very good assertion, I wished there was
> > 
> > also
> > 
> > > something similar for the argument types.
> > 
> > Until C starts supporting multiple dispatch, I think you're out of luck on
> > this one :).
> 
> I don't quite get this connection Tim - what is preventing Julia from
> having function signatures to do additional type checking on callbacks? C
> interop is one thing (no type checking when it goes there), but surely
> couldn't Julia handle this when calling internally? One thing I miss from
> C# actually where you can use delegate types (signatures) or the generic
> Func<int, int, RetType> to give the compiler a (static) view of what is
> expected.

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