On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 10:42:01 AM UTC-6, Abel Siqueira wrote: > > What Tim was trying to point out is that `isa` a builtin, and many things > depend on it being able to differentiate a scalar from an array. > > However, if you, in your code, wants to ignore this, you can define > a function that does what you want, and it won't break anything because > only your code depends on it. >
Before you get too into defining your own stuff--eltype() is already sufficiently generic: julia> eltype([1.0]) == Float64 true julia> eltype(1.0) == Float64 true
