Surprisingly, I found there is no documentation for DataType. Considering its importance (the supertype of most types), don’t you think it deserves to have some description?
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help?> DataType
search: DataType
There is, you just didn’t find it. Reflection and introspection · The Julia Language documents the layout and fields, which is probably all you need to know, unless you are working on Julia’s internals.
Please don’t assume that all the documentation is in docstrings. A lot of it is, but conceptual issues that transcend particular types or methods are easier to document in the manual.
@Tamas_Papp. I read the document and it was helpful. Thanks.
One nice feature of Julia is you can learn the language quickly using RERL so I still think even a brief docstring for DataType can be useful. For instance, I can see UnionAll has the following one so why not for DataType?
UnionAll
A union of types over all values of a type parameter. UnionAll is used
to describe parametric types where the values of some parameters are
not known.