A quick search turns up isleaftype, which seems to do exactly the opposite
of what you want:
isleaftype(AbstractArray) => false
isleaftype(Array{Int, 2}) => true
Hope that helps.
On 21 May 2014 20:15, Stephen Chisholm <sbchish...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to check if a given DataType is an abstract type? I've
> come up with a crude method below but thought there should be a better way.
>
>
> function isabstract(t::DataType)
> try
> t()
> catch exception
> return (typeof(exception) == ErrorException &&
> string(exception.msg) == "type cannot be constructed")
> end
> return false
> end
>
>
> Cheers, Steve
>
