I find that expressions like a = f(a, ...) a += f(...) can be a frequent source of nasty type instabilities. Nasty especially because they can lie dormant until generic code is suddenly used with a different numerical type, etc. So I typically guard against that with something like a = oftype(a,…

Convenience macro for type type-stable re-assignment / increment?

foobar_lv2 May 7, 2018, 6:40pm 2

Agree. Writing n += UInt16(1), n += int_T(1), x *= Float32(2.0) all over the place is very annoying. Unfortunately, I don’t know a less annoying way.

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