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Hands-On Design Patterns and Best Practices with Julia
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Hands-On Design Patterns and Best Practices with Julia

by Tom Kwong
January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
532 pages
13h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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Type III piracy – Extending with your own type, but for a different purpose

Type III piracy refers to the situation where a function is extended, but is used for a different purpose. It is the right procedure of extending code, but done in a bad way. This kind of piracy is also called a pun by the Julia developers. To understand what it is, let's consider a fun example here.

Suppose that we are developing a simple party registration application. The type definition and constructor are shown here:

# A Party just contains a title and guest namesstruct Party    title::String    guests::Vector{String}end# constructorParty(title) = Party(title, String[])

The Party type contains just a title and an array of guest names. The constructor just takes the ...

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