Gustavo Goretkin

My personal philosophy (that I do not hold with much conviction) is that types exist in julia in service of multiple dispatch. And not in service of really anything else....

In case I've come off this way, I don't mean to diminish any of the work that has gone into this package. Thank you both for that! I understand in...

Note that forward diff is one motivating example, but there are others: https://github.com/JuliaIntervals/IntervalArithmetic.jl/blob/478d673b61e1c7883bb6c05d08b72c53ada18dd7/src/intervals/intervals.jl#L14-L36 A solution that involves code specifically to handle `ColorTypes.jl` and `ForwardDiff.jl` seems to go against one of...

> Interval is not a "real" number, too! All sorts of weird type relations happen in julia libraries because 1. it's not really clear what a `Number`, `Real` or `AbstractFloat`...

> So, do you think it's better to make it `Any`, not `Real`? 😛 (a year later to the day!) Probably, yes. In my own experience, I have usually regretted...