This is due to issue https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/17314, and
should get fixed if https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/17389 gets
merged.
On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 5:00:14 PM UTC+2, j verzani wrote:
>
> The test for the Polynomials package are now failing in v0.5. Before
>
> ```
> p1 = Poly([1, 2])
> p = [p, p] # 2-element Array{Polynomials.Poly{Float64},1}:
> p + 3 # 2-element Array{Polynomials.Poly{Float64},1}:
> ```
>
> But now, `p+3` is an `Array{Any,1}`. I think the solution is related to
> how `promote_array_type` uses `promote_op`, which in turn returns `Any` for
> `Base.promote_op(:+, eltype(p), eltype(3))`. There is a comment in
> promotion.jl about adding methods to `promote_op`, but as `promote_op`
> isn't exported this seems like the wrong solution for this case. (As well,
> I couldn't figure out exactly how to do so.) I could also fix this by
> defining `.+` to directly call `broadcast`, but that defeats the work in
> `arraymath,jl`.
>
> Any hints?
>
