On Friday, May 16, 2014 2:09:03 AM UTC-5, Tony Fong wrote:
>
> Hello, new user and subscriber here. Is there a way to decompose a
> UnionType back into its constituent type(s)?
>
> I tried names():
>
> > dt = Union(Int,Float64)
> > names(dt)
> 1-element Array{Symbol,1}:
> :types
>
> convert() seems to hit dead-ends.
>
Lest it be lost, in a follow-up which he couldn't post at the time, Tony
also asked:
"* with a Composite Type, is there a way to get the type of a field? (I
only have a type, but not a value of the composite type)"
Sorry it took so long to get your post moderated; you can post freely now
(we do a first-time posters moderation to avoid some nasty spam we've had
in the past.)
