Suppose I have a container, a, could be a Tuple, a Vector, or a user-defined subtype of AbstractArray. Now I want to convert every element of a to another type, e.g., from Ints to Float64. For example, I write a rough function: convert_eltype(T::Type, a) = map(x -> convert(T, x), a) This function …

This is basically the same question you asked in How to get the container type of a container? . You’ll have to define a similar_type overload for each concrete FieldVector subtype you define. If that’s too much of a hassle, you could write a macro to generate the similar_type method along with the F…

How to convert element type of a container?

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singularitti January 30, 2019, 11:47pm 5

That’s indeed why I asked this question. I am surprised that Julia does not provide a simple way of doing this.

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How to convert element type of a container?

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