Extracting parametric types

General Usage
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Hi,
I have an object defined as A = LinearOperator{Float64}(2,2,1000,:D0,:D0,[-1,-1])
so when I do typeof(A), I get
PDEOperators.LinearOperator{Float64,SVector{3,Float64},:D0,:D1} (doing this with inner constructors and all)
so now I want to extract the :D0 and :D1.
is it possible without string manipulations ie. using features of the language itself?

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Solved by @oxinabox on gitter.

julia> typeof(typeof(A).parameters)
SimpleVector

so doing

julia> typeof(A).parameters[end]
:D0

we get the required parameter.

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But note that this is not type stable as SimpleVector has no type information on its contents. Thus, if possible, it is better (and more Julian) to use parametrized functions:

get_D0_D1{A,B,C,D}(::LinearOperator{A,B,C,D}) = C,D
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