Let’s say that I’d like to declare a function that takes a Pair as its argument, and that I’d like to restrict the kind of Pair that will be matched. For example: function foo(p::Pair{String,Any}) do some stuff end If I then create a Pair object: p = “firstkey”=>true And then call foo(p), I…

Pair{String} or Pair{String, <:Any} or Pair{String, T} where T. Maybe Pair{<:AbstractString, <:Any} is more appropriate, as some string manipulation functions return SubString and you may occasionally use it as the first element of a pair. Also, read on type parameter invariance and tuple paramete…

Declaring Pair with one fixed type

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Josiah_Slack August 29, 2020, 6:50pm 3

Thanks, that’s very helpful, and the suggestion about AbstractString is a good one.

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Declaring Pair with one fixed type

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