I wonder if there is a function that returns whether a type T is abstract or not. Any idea? I am trying to make a generator that returns all concrete types of a specific abstract type, and I need to check whether a certain type is abstract or not. subtypes(T) is no good because it cannot differenti…

Is there an isabstract(T) function where T is a DataType?

favba January 7, 2018, 3:32pm 16

It is a UnionAll type, which is NOT a concrete type. But I don’t know if not being concrete is the definition of an abstract type

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