Getter functions with constant output

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Defining methods without binding variables

I’ve seen many examples of Julia code where methods are defined without any variable name bindings. My usage of terminology my be inaccurate here, but for example: eltype(::Type{<:AbstractArray{T}}) where {T} = T As far as I can tell, this is equivalent to the following code. eltype(S::Type{<:AbstractArray{T}}) where {T} = T But since we don’t need to do any computation with the value S, we don’t need to bind the value to this symbol, so we can just use the first way of defining the method,…

I’ve got a docs PR that I should really try to get merged that names and describes this pattern as “anonymous arguments”, as previously suggested.

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