I have a function for which one of the arguments may be either an array or a tuple, though its usage internally is tuple-like. If x is an array that then I will have the line y = copy(x) but if x is a tuple, copy will not work so I need to simply say: y = x The problem is: how can my code distin…

How to distinguish an array from a tuple when doing a copy / assignment

dpsanders May 23, 2020, 2:34pm 8

Yes I’m aware that it’s type piracy.
But why, for example, is copy(t::Tuple) not defined in Base?

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