Improve inference for unique
with abstract eltypes
#36280
Merged
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#20317 improved inference of
unique
, but problematic cases still arise for containers with known but abstract eltypes. Here, we short-circuit thetypejoin
when the return type is determined by the element type of the input container.For
unique(f, itr)
, this commit also allows the caller to supplyseen::Set
to circumvent the inference challenges.This resolves a number of invalidations in
Pkg
andREPL
.TODO: update NEWS entry with issue number, once assigned.