Custom promote_rule not working

General Usage
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I’m running Julia 1.6.2. Not sure what’s going wrong here:

struct Foo end
Base.promote_rule(::Type{Foo}, ::Type{Float64}) = Foo
@show Base.promote(Foo, Float64)

I get

$ julia bug.jl
Base.promote(Foo, Float64) = (Foo, Float64)

whereas I’d expect it to return Foo.

I believe I’m following the docs almost word-for-word. What’s going on here?

2

promote != promote_type.

Base.promote_type(Foo, Float64) = Foo