No, Julia only dispatches on types not on values. The latter sometimes goes under the name of pattern matching. There is a package for that: https://github.com/toivoh/PatternDispatch.jl
On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 10:15, Michael Borregaard <mkborrega...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a way in julia to restrict the values of arguments to a function, > eg to the contents of a certain vector? > > So, e.g. method in the function > > function foo(x, method::String) ... > > would be constrained to either "spearman", "pearson" or "kendall"? > > Thanks
