That would be a breaking change.
@anon56330260âs suggestion could still be implemented in a more soft sense by updating the docs to recommend only using ifelse for that certain subset of types. We could also have a little section on ifelse in the performance section of the manual.
Why do you say that? If you made ifelse generic, couldnât you add methods to deal with more complex types and lower them to a series of select statements more intelligently?
And to ask a potentially dumb question: why canât we make Juliaâs frontend compiler aware of ifelse? What does making the compiler âawareâ mean?