In the style guide, it talks about type piracy [1], the practice of extending or redefining methods on types you didn’t define. We’ve been told in the past not to do this, especially with methods and types defined by Base, as it can subtly break Julia. However, we are in a situation where we really…

Something like this perhaps? module Nemo export NemoType struct NemoType end Base.exp(::NemoType) = println("calling exp for NemoType") exp(x::Int) = println("calling Nemo.exp for julia type") end resutling in julia> x = NemoType() Nemo.NemoType() julia> exp(x) calling exp for NemoType julia> e…

Clarification on type piracy

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kristoffer.carlsson September 16, 2017, 7:50pm 3

Having local implementations is not type piracy, see the “extending or redefining” part.

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