Is union abstract type?

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Despite the fact that the documentation says that union is an abstract type, the isabstracttype() function returns false:

IntOrString = Union{Int,AbstractString}
isabstracttype(IntOrString)

false
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This is the documented behavior of isabstracttype:

Determine whether type T was declared as an abstract type (i.e. using the abstract type syntax). Note that this is not the negation of isconcretetype(T). [emphasis added]

It sounds like you want !isconcretetype, e.g.

julia> !isconcretetype(IntOrString)
true
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Thank you! That’s exactly what I wanted!)

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Related doc issue:

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