The only way I've come up with so far is with this clunky looking type
union:
intsAndVecs = Union{Unsigned,
AbstractVector{UInt8},
AbstractVector{UInt16},
AbstractVector{UInt32},
AbstractVector{UInt64},
AbstractVector{UInt128}}
On Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 11:44:14 PM UTC+1, Ben Ward wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm tying to create a parametric type which can hold a variable which
> could be any kind of vector, and whatever the vector is, it can store one
> of the UInts. So it could have:
>
> UInt8[1,2,3]
> UInt64[1,2,3]
> UnitRange(1, 3)
> UnitRange(UInt16(1), UInt16(3))
> ... and so on.
>
> But I'm having trouble deciding what needs to go in the parametric part of
> it's definition: e.g.
>
> MyType{T <: (unsure of this bit)}
> val::T
> end
>
>
> I thought that AbstractVector{Unsigned} might be the way to go, but
> Vector{UInt8} does not inherit from AbstractVector{Unsigned}.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben.
>
