And to be complete, depending on your use-case:
julia> abstract Furniture
julia> type Table <: Furniture end
julia> f(::Furniture) = 10
f (generic function with 1 method)
julia> f(Table())
10
On Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 1:01:39 PM UTC-4, Vinuth Madinur wrote:
>
> Yes!
>
> Thats awesome.
>
> Thanks,
> Vinuth.
>
>
> On Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 10:10:04 PM UTC+5:30, Seth wrote:
>>
>> Is this what you're looking for?
>>
>> julia> abstract Furniture
>>
>> julia> type Table <: Furniture end
>>
>> julia> f{T<:Furniture}(::Type{T}) = 10
>> f (generic function with 1 method)
>>
>> julia> f(Furniture)
>> 10
>>
>> julia> f(Table)
>> 10
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 9:34:12 AM UTC-7, Vinuth Madinur wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to do function dispatch on subtypes? For example,
>>> consider the following:
>>>
>>> > abstract Furniture
>>>
>>> > type Table <: Furniture end
>>>
>>> > f(::Type{Furniture}) = 10
>>>
>>> > f(Furniture)
>>> 10
>>>
>>> > f(Table)
>>> Error.....
>>>
>>> How do I enable the same function to be called when I do f(Table)?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Vinuth.
>>>
>>>
