# Function zero() with type"Any"

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/function-zero-with-type-any/27007
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [July 30, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/function-zero-with-type-any/27007 "2019-07-30T23:56:22Z")
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### Author: ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 7:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/function-zero-with-type-any/27007/4 "2019-07-31T07:26:28Z")

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While using `Any` as an element type is probably not good style unless you have a good reason, the methods should work, so this looks like a bug. Probably non-numeric types should just use `0` here.

Please make a self-contained MWE and open an issue.

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