I am new to Julia and therefore my curiosity in some implementation details. In the package Agents.jl, the type constructor of Agents.AgentBasedModel is expecting a type as its first argument (specifically an AgentType <: AbstractAgent). I am wondering what are the advantages of or motivation behi…

Hi, its great that you are curious! I hope the answer “its a matter of style” won’t dissapoint you though :smiley: AgentBasedModel has several other type parameters besides the agent type, and therefore specifiying only one of the first in {} does not appear very intuitive to me. It makes for a s…

The reasons why ABM is not a parameterized type in Agents.jl?

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Atiyah May 7, 2022, 5:39am 5

Ok! I will need to have a look over the implementation.

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The reasons why ABM is not a parameterized type in Agents.jl?

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