Hi fellows, I have a function, which can return five different types according to some conditions. Julia seems to have a problem with type-inference. I created a small example with a similar problem. We create a random number and, dependent on its value, the returned object can have one of five dat…

Hi, @BBReactionHooper ! I think this is a perfect place for using SumTypes GitHub - MasonProtter/SumTypes.jl: An implementation of Sum types in Julia

Upper boundary for dispatch in Julia

josuagrw January 29, 2024, 3:12pm 2

Hi, that’s an interesting question. Could you paste the code in text format please?

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