[julia-users] Re: Why does the subtypes method produce an array rather than a set?

[Ismael Venegas Castelló]

I just tested and the output seems to be deterministically ordered:

julia> x = map(string, subtypes(Any));

julia> y = sort!(map(string, subtypes(Any)));

julia> x == y
true



El sábado, 26 de diciembre de 2015, 12:52:51 (UTC-6), Ray Toal escribió:
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> I noticed that 
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> *julia> **subtypes(Type)*
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> *3-element Array{Any,1}:*
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> * DataType      *
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> * TypeConstructor*
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> * Union *
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> and was wondering if there was any significance in the order of the 
> subtypes. If not, could the method have produced a Set instead?
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>