To further clarify, I thought I could specialise getindex / setindex! on colon
type argument.
see below, getindex2 is being called, but getindex is not being called.
A[:] calls getindex(A::AbstractArray{T,N},I::AbstractArray{T,N}) at
abstractarray.jl:380
presumably after [:] has been converted to [1:8]
julia> getindex(A::FArray, ::Colon) = A[start(A) : endof(A)]
getindex (generic function with 177 methods)
julia> getindex2(A::FArray, ::Colon) = A[start(A) : endof(A)]
getindex2 (generic function with 1 method)
julia> A = FZeros(Int, -2:8)
11-element FArray{Int64,1} (-2:8,)
julia> A[:]
8-element Array{Int64,1}:
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
julia> @which A[:]
getindex(A::AbstractArray{T,N},I::AbstractArray{T,N}) at
abstractarray.jl:380
julia> getindex2(A, :)
11-element Array{Int64,1}:
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
julia>
