Stefan,
Here are some meaningless examples of in(.,.) that do not give an error
message:
julia> VERSION
v"0.3.0-rc2+12"
julia> x = IntSet([3,5])
IntSet([3, 5])
julia> in(3,x)
true
julia> in(x,3)
false
julia> in("abc",19)
false
julia> in(19,"abc")
false
-- Steve
On Thursday, August 7, 2014 7:17:08 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
>
> I've noticed that the 'in' function appears to accept any pair of
> arguments; it returns 'false' in the case that the arguments make no sense.
> I suppose that some file has defined in(x::Any,y::Any) to be false. Why
> is this so? This definition appears to impede debugging because, for
> example, if a programmer accidentally reverses the two arguments to 'in()'
> or makes some less obvious blunder with types, no error message is issued.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Vavasis
>
>
