Julia type system

Overview

Teaching: 60 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• What is the use of types?

• How are types organized in julia?

Objectives

• Understand the structure of the type tree.

• Know how to traverse the type tree.

• Know how to build abstract, mutable and immutable types.

• Know how to use type parameters.

Key Points

• Types enable the compiler to optimize code.

• In julia types have only one direct supertype.

• Types increase security, Type annotations are mainly used for dispatch.

• Parametric types are useful for flexible yet performant code.