You can use Base.return_types to see what return types are inferred.
On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 23:54, Shivkumar Chandrasekaran <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just documentation and readability of the functions themselves. For now I
> will just stick the return type in a comment (and hope I don't forget to
> change it if needed).
>
> On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 3:20:42 PM UTC-7, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
>>
>> Le mardi 10 mars 2015 à 15:12 -0700, Shivkumar Chandrasekaran a écrit :
>> > Thanks! I guess I will put the return type in the calling code
>> > instead. Nuisance though.
>> But you shouldn't need to. Julia is able to find out what the return
>> type is as long as you write type-stable code. Can you give more details
>> about what you're trying to achieve?
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> > On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 2:39:37 PM UTC-7, Mauro wrote:
>> > Sadly not. Have a look at
>> > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1090
>> > and
>> > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/10269
>> >
>> > The complication in Julia is that with its multimethods, it is
>> > not so
>> > clear what the return type of a generic function actually
>> > means.
>> >
>> > On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 21:24, Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > > I am new to Julia, so forgive the elementary question, but I
>> > could not seem
>> > > to find the answer in the docs or by googling the news
>> > group.
>> > >
>> > > Is it possible to specify the return type of a function in
>> > Julia?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks.
>> > >
>> > > --shiv--
>> >
>>
>>
