Re: SimpleTraits vs Traits, that's good to know. It would be nice to have this note as part of the docs for Traits.jl. You already have a very nice "Other Trait Implementations" section that links to a bunch of other implementations, but not SimpleTraits.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 2:56 AM Mauro <mauro...@runbox.com> wrote: > My Traits.jl package hasn't seen much love recently. It should work > fine (within its limitation of being experimental) for 0.4 but I'm not > sure I'll find the time to update it to 0.5 when the time comes. > > There is also https://github.com/mauro3/SimpleTraits.jl which is (+/-) > just macro-sugar for "trait tricks". This package is a lot simpler, > easier to maintain and thus more likely to prevail until the > traitocalypse. > > On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 15:29, Jason Merrill <jwmerr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It is not currently possible for a type to have multiple direct > supertypes. > > > > You might be interested in the Traits package: > > > > https://github.com/mauro3/Traits.jl > > > > If you don't want to add a dependency, you can use the "traits trick" > > directly, which seems to have first been described here: > > > > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/2345#issuecomment-54537633 > > > > Base uses this strategy right now to decide how to iterate over subtypes > of > > AbstractArrays based on whether the linearindexing function returns > > LinearFast or LinearSlow for the type. > > > > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=LinearFast > > > > On Monday, April 4, 2016 at 8:54:24 AM UTC-4, Martin Kuzma wrote: > >> > >> Hi, since abstract types cant have any fields I think of them as > >> interfaces. I want to specify that a type is subtype of more than one > >> supertype. > >> I tried this: > >> > >> abstract A > >> > >> abstract B > >> > >> type T <: A, B end > >> > >> But I cant do that. Is it even possible to do? Am I using a wrong > syntax? > >> Martin. > >> >
