I see that now, for some reason trying to do search on (:: in the docs on-line didn't bring up anything...
> Search Results > Your search did not match any documents. Please make sure that all words > are spelled correctly and that you've selected enough categories. > However, I don't think that just having it implied in some section about something else is really "documented" ;-) When I first saw it, I even wondered if it was some way of indicating the return type of a method... (btw, *is* there any way of giving an indication of the return type?) Scott On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 1:13:03 PM UTC-4, Tamas Papp wrote: > > I think it is implied that you can do this: there are quite a few > examples in the manual, eg > https://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual/types/#value-types > > Best, > > Tamas > > On Tue, Apr 21 2015, Scott Jones <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > Ah, thanks for the *very* quick reply. That’s quite useful. > > Did I somehow miss the explanation in the documentation (of 0.4), or > does > > that need to be added to the documentation of methods? > > > > Thanks, > > Scott > > > > On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 11:41:45 AM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > >> > >> It means that the argument doesn't get a local name but the method is > only > >> called if the argument in that position matches the type on the RHS of > the > >> :: > >> > >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Scott Jones <[email protected] > >> <javascript:>> wrote: > >> > >>> Just what does it mean, if there is a type but no formal parameter > name, > >>> in a function definition? > >>> I tried to find it in the documentation, but nothing came up... > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Scott > >>> > >>> > >> >
