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Using named tuples with type variables sometimes leads to errors when the NamedTupleTools package is loaded. In particular, the pirated fieldtypes
function causes errors, e.g., when printing the documentation (example code uses Julia 1.8 and NamedTupleTools 0.14.1):
w/o NamedTupleTools (expected behavior)
julia> const Foo{T} = @NamedTuple{a::T}
NamedTuple{(:a,), Tuple{T}} where T
help?> Foo
search: Foo floor pointer_from_objref OverflowError RoundFromZero unsafe_copyto! functionloc StackOverflowError @functionloc OutOfMemoryError UndefKeywordError unsafe_pointer_to_objref
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Summary
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struct NamedTuple{(:a,), Tuple{T}}
Fields
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a :: T
w/ NamedTupleTools
julia> using NamedTupleTools
julia> const Foo{T} = @NamedTuple{a::T}
NamedTuple{(:a,), Tuple{T}} where T
help?> Foo
search: Foo FooBar floor pointer_from_objref OverflowError RoundFromZero unsafe_copyto! functionloc StackOverflowError @functionloc OutOfMemoryError UndefKeywordError unsafe_pointer_to_objref
ERROR: UndefVarError: T not defined
Stacktrace:
[1] fieldtypes(#unused#::Type{NamedTuple{(:a,), Tuple{T}}})
@ NamedTupleTools ~/.julia/packages/NamedTupleTools/2Wwof/src/NamedTupleTools.jl:66
[2] summarize(io::IOBuffer, TT::Type, binding::Base.Docs.Binding)
@ REPL /usr/lib64/julia-1.8.2/share/julia/stdlib/v1.8/REPL/src/docview.jl:286
[3] summarize(binding::Base.Docs.Binding, sig::Type)
@ REPL /usr/lib64/julia-1.8.2/share/julia/stdlib/v1.8/REPL/src/docview.jl:249
[4] doc(binding::Base.Docs.Binding, sig::Type)
@ REPL /usr/lib64/julia-1.8.2/share/julia/stdlib/v1.8/REPL/src/docview.jl:182
[5] doc(binding::Base.Docs.Binding)
@ REPL /usr/lib64/julia-1.8.2/share/julia/stdlib/v1.8/REPL/src/docview.jl:160
[6] top-level scope
@ /usr/lib64/julia-1.8.2/share/julia/stdlib/v1.8/REPL/src/docview.jl:474
Notably, this breaks otherwise valid Julia code by just using
the NamedTupleTools package.
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