The issue in question in case anyone is curious: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19157.
On Sunday, October 30, 2016, Stefan Karpinski <ste...@karpinski.org> wrote: > That wasn't a PR, it was a "crazy idea" issue. Please stop spreading bogus > news of change before anything has been decided, let alone happened. > > On Sunday, October 30, 2016, Scott Jones <scott.paul.jo...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','scott.paul.jo...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > >> Maybe `@mutable` instead of `@qtype` or `@type`, to reflect Jeff's PR to >> change the `type` keyword to `mutable`, making the naming consistent >> >> On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 11:00:13 AM UTC-4, Cedric St-Jean wrote: >>> >>> Types are central to Julia programming, but the built-in `type` and >>> `immutable` definitions can be cumbersome to write. QuickTypes.jl >>> <https://github.com/cstjean/QuickTypes.jl> provides two alternative >>> macros, *@qtype* and *@qimmutable, *with a more convenient syntax: >>> >>> Pkg.add("QuickTypes") # to install >>> using QuickTypes >>> >>> @qtype Wall(width, height) >>> >>> # Optional and keyword-arguments >>> @qtype Cat(name, age::Int, nlegs=4; species="Siamese") >>> >>> # Parametric type >>> @qtype Pack{T}(animals::Vector{T}) >>> >>> # Inheritance >>> abstract Tree >>> @qtype Maple(qty_syrup::Float64) <: Tree >>> >>> # Immutables work the same way >>> @qimmutable SquaredNumber(x2::Number) >>> >>>
