promotion

[bjarthur]

would be nice if this worked:

julia> Float8(1.0) * Float32(1.0)
ERROR: promotion of types Float8 and Float32 failed to change any arguments

very useful package btw!

[milankl]

Just define promotion

Base.promote_rule(::Type{Float8},::Type{Float16}) = Float16
Base.promote_rule(::Type{Float8},::Type{Float32}) = Float32
Base.promote_rule(::Type{Float8},::Type{Float64}) = Float64
Base.promote_rule(::Type{Float8},::Type{<:Integer}) = Float8

?

[milankl]

Released as v0.1.1

[bjarthur]

thanks so much! i was going to offer to submit a PR, but you beat me to it.

[milankl]

I wrote this package years ago for a project but never used it since, glad that it's still useful!