Is there a way to provide support for the types from another package without actually requiring that package? For example, say I wanted to make the following type in my package: struct Foo{T<:Real} <: AbstractArray{T,2} table::Array{T,2} samples::Vector{S} where S features::Vector{R} wh…

Requires.jl should work, if you’re willing to sub one dependency for another.

Support for other package without requiring it

Liso December 7, 2017, 7:21pm 5

Some plan for glue modules is described on github. That issue is put on the 1.0 milestone.

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