On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 5:57:43 AM UTC-7, Alex Townsend wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, 2 September 2014 03:00:10 UTC-4, Jason Merrill wrote: >> >> On Monday, September 1, 2014 2:33:31 PM UTC-7, Alex Townsend wrote: >>> >>> I have written a package FastGauss.jl available here: >>> >>> https://github.com/ajt60gaibb/FastGauss.jl >>> >> >>> I am a Julia beginner (only been learning for 2 weeks) so I am assuming >>> the code can be >>> improved in a million and one ways. Please tell me if I've done >>> something that Julia does >>> not like. I am not sure if it is appropriate to make this an official >>> package. >>> >> >> One thing to look out for is making sure your functions have consistent >> return types. E.g. in >> https://github.com/ajt60gaibb/FastGauss.jl/blob/91e2ac656b856876563d5aacf7b5a405e068b3da/src/GaussLobatto.jl#L4 >> >> you have >> > Thanks! I tried to get the return types consistent, but obviously missed a > few. I've been trying to use @code_typed to tell me this > information, but reading the output is a little difficult (at the moment). >
I think the community as a whole would like to see better tooling around finding and fixing this kind of soft bug. You might check out https://github.com/tonyhffong/Lint.jl, and https://github.com/astrieanna/TypeCheck.jl. I haven't tried either of them myself yet, but I've heard people say good things about both of them.
