I have a situation where I am working with several qualitatively different types of arrays (arrays of phases, arrays of complex field amplitudes, arrays of intensities…). Although the data for each such array is the same–just an array of real or complex numbers–I would like to be able to dispatch b…

What I ended up doing was creating a collection of types with no fields under an abstract Domain type to indicate the sort qualities my arrays represented, and then making one parametric array type which took a Domain subtype as a parameter. Something like this: abstract type Domain end struct Rea…

Custom arrays for dispatch

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Sukera April 27, 2022, 5:48am 6

Implementing custom arrays isn’t as bad as one might think. You’ll probably be interested in

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https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/interfaces/#man-interface-array

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Custom arrays for dispatch

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