Julia 1.0 Programming - Second Edition

User-defined and composite types

In Julia, as a developer you can define your own types to structure data used in applications. For example, if you need to represent points in a three-dimensional space, you can define a type Point, as follows:

# see the code in Chapter 6\user_defined.jl: 
mutable struct Point 
    x::Float64 
    y::Float64 
    z::Float64 
end 

mutable here means that Point values can be modified. If your type values cannot be changed, simply use struct.

The type Point is a concrete type. Objects of this type can be created as p1 = Point(2, 4, 1.3), and it has no subtypes: typeof(p1) returns Point (constructor with 2 methods), subtypes(Point)returns 0-element Array{Any,1}.

Such a user-defined type is composed of a set of named fields with ...