Can Julia have dispatch based on type aliases? Something rather similar to Scala 3’s opaque type aliases . const MyTypeAlias = Float64 a::MyTypeAlias = 78.0 # The compiler should implicitly convert this from Float64 to MyTypeAlias some_func(a::Float64) = :foo some_func(a::MyTypeAlias) = :bar other_…

Dispatch on type aliases?

kristoffer.carlsson October 31, 2021, 5:23pm 8

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