Re: [julia-users] Request for comments: best way to deal with type uncertainty.

2015-09-25 Thread Stefan Karpinski
You want to type locations, i.e. arrays and fields, not function parameters and generally not local variables (although that's useful to get autoconversion behavior). On Friday, September 25, 2015, harven wrote: > > > Le vendredi 25 septembre 2015 02:41:32 UTC+2, Ben Ward a

[julia-users] Request for comments: best way to deal with type uncertainty.

2015-09-24 Thread Ben Ward
Hi Julia Users, I'm one of the Core-Devs in the BioJulia organisation, with a background in evolutionary biology/genetics, and, with a few other contributors I'm writing Bio.jl's Phylo submodule. The primary type of this submodule is the Phylogeny. Which is a composite type, used to describe