On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 4:50:26 PM UTC, Fengyang Wang wrote: > > but type piracy is bad practice. This method should really be in Base. >
As always, if something, should be in Base or Julia, then I think a PR is welcome. [Maybe I do not fully understand this (yes, type piracy I guess equals, accessing internal variable, that would be Private (to not violate Parnas' Principles) in other languages). I like how Julia avoids Hoare's self-admitted billion dollar mistake. It seems to violate Parnas' but since no type can subtype a concrete type, it may not, or at least that violation can always be avoided(?).] -- Palli.