I have two types (FooType and BarType) which implement the AbstractArray interface. The former is just a vector of float numbers, the latter is a vector of FooType. When I try to call sort() on them, it works smoothly for FooType objects but doesn’t for BarType. The error is: ERROR: MethodError:…

What happens is that this fails: julia> similar(b, Float64, (3,)) ERROR: MethodError: Cannot `convert` an object of type Int64 to an object of type BarType This may have arisen from a call to the constructor BarType(...), since type constructors fall back to convert methods. Base.similar(b::BarTy…

Sorting custom types

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tkoolen March 22, 2018, 11:08pm 4

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Sorting custom types

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