Quite often I have to use the type parameters to make the struct concrete/type stable, but I never need to use that parameter for dispatch. So the type parameter becomes unnecessary in some sense (and ugly). For example abstract struct AType end struct Subtype1 <: Atype end struct Subtype2 <: Atype…

Unnecessary type parameters

mschauer October 27, 2020, 9:42am 7

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