Yes, I've been meaning to submit a PR. The last one contained several other changes which were substantially more controversial. My plan was to split the PR up into smaller changes.
On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 4:48:21 PM UTC-4, Páll Haraldsson wrote: > > On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 4:50:26 PM UTC, Fengyang Wang wrote: >> >> but type piracy is bad practice. This method should really be in Base. >> > > As always, if something, should be in Base or Julia, then I think a PR is > welcome. > > [Maybe I do not fully understand this (yes, type piracy I guess equals, > accessing internal variable, that would be Private (to not violate Parnas' > Principles) in other languages). > > I like how Julia avoids Hoare's self-admitted billion dollar mistake. It > seems to violate Parnas' but since no type can subtype a concrete type, it > may not, or at least that violation can always be avoided(?).] > > -- > Palli. > >
