As we saw in Chapter 2, Variables, Types, and Operations, type-annotating a variable is done with the :: operator, such as in the function definition function write(io::IO, s::String) #... end, where the parameter io has to be of type IO, and s of type String. To put it differently, io has to be an instance of type IO, and s an instance of type String. The :: operator is, in fact, an assertion that affirms that the value on the left is of the type on the right. If this is not true, a typeassert error is thrown. Try this out in the REPL:
# see the code in Chapter 6\conversions.jl: (31+42)::Float64
We get an ERROR: TypeError: in typeassert, expected Float64, got Int64 error message.
This is, in addition to the method specialization ...
