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This package provides a macro-based implementation of traits, using Tim Holy's trait trick. The main idea behind traits is to group types outside the type-hierarchy and to make dispatch work with that grouping. The difference to Union-types is that types can be added to a trait after the creation of the trait, whereas Union types are fixed after creation. The cool thing about Tim's trick is that there is no performance impact compared to using ordinary dispatch. For a bit of background and a quick introduction to traits watch my 10min JuliaCon 2015 talk.

Julia is a fast, open source high-performance dynamic language for technical computing. It can be used for data visualization and plotting, deep learning, machine learning, scientific computing, parallel computing and so much more. Having a high level syntax, Julia is easy to use for programmers of every level and background. Julia has more than 2,800 community-registered packages including various mathematical libraries, data manipulation tools, and packages for general purpose...

...In addition, WhereTraits comes with a standardized way how to resolve ambiguities among traits, by defining an order among the traits with @traits_order. Under the hood @traits uses normal function dispatch to achieve the speed and flexibility, however, julia function dispatch can lead to ambiguities. With traits these can easily happen if someone defines @traits for the same standard dispatch but using different traits.