Off-topic, but you also have a major type problem. Use `Array{T,N}` rather than
`Array{MyType}`, where `T <: MyType`. See
http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.3/manual/faq/#how-should-i-declare-abstract-container-type-fields.
--Tim
On Friday, July 10, 2015 12:17:19 AM Scott Noel-Hemming wrote:
> I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here, but can anyone point me to
> where I should look to explain this behavior:
>
> immutable MyArray <: MyType
> prefix::Char
> values::Array{MyType}
>
> MyArray(values::Array{MyType}) = new('*', values::Array{MyType})
> #MyArray(values::Tuple{MyType}) = new(collect(values::Tuple{MyType}))
> end
> #MyArray(values::Tuple{MyType}) = MyArray(collect(values::Tuple{MyType}))
>
>
> I've included a couple, commented out, attempts that don't appear to work.
> The main goal is to provide provide a constructor method which takes an
> Array or a Tuple type for the values argument. Both methods include result
> in an error, though:
>
> ERROR: type: instantiate_type: expected TypeConstructor, got Type{(Any...,)}
> > in include at /usr/bin/../lib/julia/sys.so
> > in process_options at /usr/bin/../lib/julia/sys.so
> > in _start at /usr/bin/../lib/julia/sys.so (repeats 2 times)
> >
> > while loading /home/scott/.julia/v0.3/Redis/tmp/classes.jl, in expression
> > starting on line 53
