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…

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.

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

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singularitti June 12, 2020, 12:06pm 3

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

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