promotion fails for subtyping

[Xiu-zhe (Roger) Luo]

@subtype SymReal <: Real

SymReal(:x) * im

I'm wondering if there should be some specialization for subtypes of Real etc.?

[Dream Scatter]

Indeed, the current dispatch implementation of the new fake subtype is only very basic, since I have not used the feature much myself yet and neither has @cscherrer yet

More info can be found in #22 (comment) where I explained the Reduce.init_subtype method

function init_subtype(name)
    Expr(:block,[:(Base.$i(r::$name...)=$i(RExpr.(r)...)|>$name) for i ∈ [alg;iops]]...) |> eval
    Expr(:block,[:($i(r::$name...)=$i(RExpr.(r)...)|>$name) for i ∈ [calculus;cnan;cmat]]...) |> eval
    Expr(:block,[:(Base.$i(r::$name)=$i(RExpr(r))|>$name) for i ∈ [sbas;[:length]]]...) |> eval
    Expr(:block,[:($i(r::$name)=$i(RExpr(r))|>$name) for i ∈ [sfun;snan;snum;scom;sint;sran;smat]]...) |> eval
end

As you can see, the new subtype name has various new methods created for dispatch.

However, when I made the current version of init_subtype I was only concerned with getting the largest subset of functionality working and did not focus on checking every specialized possibility yet.

The variables alg,iops,calculus,cnan,cmat,sbas,sfun,snan,snum,scom,sint,sran,smat contain all the method names used for the dispatch as defined in args.jl and unary.jl.

The solution for this would be to modify the Reduce.init_subtype in rexpr.jl method and refine it.

[Dream Scatter]

@Roger-luo this issue has now been resolved, let me know if you find another bug

julia> Reduce.@subtype SymReal <: Real

julia> SymReal(:x) * im
0 + x*im