Ok sorry, dist::Sampleable actually works...
Le vendredi 13 novembre 2015 17:11:53 UTC+1, [email protected] a écrit : > > Hello, > > I want to write a function sample(d, n) where n is a number of samples and > d is a distribution from the package Distributions. > I would like to ensure that what is given as d in the function is indeed a > distribution, ideally I'd like to write something like > sample(d::Distribution, n::Int). > A normal distribution d = Normal(0.0, 1.0) is of type > Distributions.Normal, and a uniform distribution d = Uniform(0.0, 1.0) is > of type Distributions.Uniform. > So I don't think I have a way to specify the type of d inside the > signature of sample. > All that I know is that the type of these distributions are subtypes of > Sampleable. > So for now I'm stuck with: > > function sample(d, n::Int) > assert(typeof(d) <: Sampleable) > ... > end > > But maybe there is another way to say that d should derive from a specific > type..? (Inside the function signature ideally.) > > Thank you, >
