I think that the point of the idea was to get rid of the Abstract prefix. It can be a bit confusing that some, but not all, abstract types have the Abstract prefix, and as seen in this thread it has led to some misunderstandings.
On Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 8:29:21 AM UTC+1, Tomas Lycken wrote: > > Better yet, since we already have both AbstractVector, AbstractMatrix, > AbstractArray, AbstractString, AbstractFloat and a couple of others (try > typing Abstract<tab> in the REPL…) it might be time to rename Integer to > AbstractInteger. I have a hard time thinking the confusion between Int > and Integer would be reduced just because we also had Arr and Array et al > - rather, we’d have *several*. > > >
