I am working on Julia 1.3 and find we can have Numbers, Symbols and Chars, etc., as type parameters, but they cannot be Strings, Cmds, etc. julia> struct A{T} end julia> A{333}() A{333}() julia> A{"fd"}() ERROR: TypeError: in Type, in parameter, expected Type, got String Stacktrace: [1] t…

Can we have `String`s/`Cmd`s as type parameter?

singularitti June 12, 2020, 12:04pm 2

I found in this post and the docs of isbitstype and Val that only values that are isbits can be used, plus Symbols. See the first post for more details.

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Can we have `String`s/`Cmd`s as type parameter?

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