This is an MWE simplified from some code that tries to implement * for a type and AbstractStrings. In this MWE, the intention is to return a Foo whenever any argument is a Foo. Is this a bug, or user error? I think that the * method should be more specific than the *(s1::Union{AbstractChar, Abstra…

Like you said, Base doesn’t have a *(::AbstractString, ::AbstractString...) method. Replace that 3rd method and you find: julia> f(s1::Union{AbstractChar, AbstractString}, ss::Union{AbstractChar, AbstractString}...) = 0 f (generic function with 3 methods) julia> f("h", "i") ERROR: MethodError: f(:…

Fatal: error thrown and no exception handler available for a * method

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oheil August 28, 2023, 8:09am 2

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Fatal: error thrown and no exception handler available for a * method

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