@Tim,
On that note, one would also want to amend the declaration of `MyArray` to
`MyArray{T <: MyType}` in order that the type information about the
`values` field be reflected in the type of the `MyArray` object, correct?
On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 8:38:11 AM UTC-4, Tim Holy wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
