this is great.  from just looking at the example in the docs i can see i've 
missed a couple of methods!  thanks.

On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 15:54:07 UTC-3, Leah Hanson wrote:
>
> The "% coverage" part is done. You can see the documentation at 
> https://github.com/astrieanna/TypeCheck.jl#methodswithdescendantstdatatypeonlyleavesboolfalselimint10(anchor
>  in the README). Please try it out and let me know whether it's 
> helpful. (Note that abstract types are  included by default; using 
> onlyleaves=true to get your requested behavior.)
>
> Usage statistics are definitely harder, but only because finding uses of a 
> function in general is harder. I'll think about that a bit more; 
> check_method_calls might have some of the needed infrastructure of that.
>
> Comparing types could be accomplished with a wrapper on the new 
> methodswithdescendants function; I can add that.
>
> -- Leah
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:26 PM, andrew cooke <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> sweet.  i'd like to see something like "% coverage". for Number, for 
>> example, what % of concrete types have abs() defined?
>>
>> another useful statistic, which might not be possible, is across how many 
>> modules is a function used - for example, which operation on Number occurs 
>> in most modules?  which are used only in one module?
>>
>> it would also be nice if you could compare types - what functions does 
>> Integer (or sub types) have, that my type does not?
>>
>> and ponies!
>>
>> cheers, andrew
>>
>> ps i just looked at TypeCheck.  check_loop_types is going to be sooo 
>> useful....
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 20:13:07 UTC-3, Leah Hanson wrote:
>>
>>> I'm planning to add a "which methods are defined for subtypes of this 
>>> type" function to TypeCheck.jl this week. If there's any specific behavior 
>>> you want it to have, let me know. :)
>>>
>>> -- Leah
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:52 PM, David Moon <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 7:14:37 AM UTC-5, David Moon wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The advantage of making it an explicit concept in the language, rather 
>>>>> than just defining a method that signals an error, is that it can be 
>>>>> checked at compile time.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In Julia, compile time is load time.  Specifically, after evaluating a 
>>>> top-level expression (which may have loaded a whole lot of files) check 
>>>> each newly defined datatype or bitstype to see if there are any required 
>>>> methods that involve that type or its supertypes.  If so, check if an 
>>>> instance of the newly defined type would have all the required methods 
>>>> applicable to it in the appropriate argument position.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>

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