About inheritance and abstract types

[Tamas_Papp]

@williamfgc

Julia essentially implements the Fortran model

I am not sure I understand what “the Fortran model” is in this context.

@williamfgc

Their choice is to organize using OO architecture.

Again, I don’t understand the what the issue is. It is possible to provide idiomatic interfaces in Julia to external libraries that are organized using OO. There are many examples.

@williamfgc

the mentioned alternatives mean that get_type must be implemented in all derived types

This is not true. Perhaps you missed @mauro3’s answer.