Awesome! I didn't know about Val... thanks Kevin.
On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 5:02:49 PM UTC-4, Kevin Squire wrote:
>
> It actually exists in Julia v0.4, as the `Val` type:
>
> julia> @enum Fruit apple orange banana
>
> julia> apple
> apple::Fruit
>
> julia> isbits(apple)
> true
>
> julia> function what_am_i{T}(::Val{T})
> println("I'm a $T, of type $(typeof(T))")
> end
> what_am_i (generic function with 1 method)
>
> julia> what_am_i(Val{apple}())
> I'm a apple, of type Fruit
>
> julia> what_am_i(Val{orange}())
> I'm a orange, of type Fruit
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Tom Breloff <t...@breloff.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> As far as I know, this would require the ability to dispatch on values in
>> general, since enum values are just const instances of an immutable type.
>> I know this feature has been requested (and I'd certainly make use of it as
>> well), but I'm not sure I'd expect it anytime soon.
>>
>>
>> On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 4:38:15 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote:
>>>
>>> Or, is dispatch on enum values planned?
>>> Can I tell when a function parameter will dispatch on its arg value at
>>> compile-time?
>>> thanks.
>>>
>>
>
