Help disambiguation with special matrix types (#134)

Author: dkarrasch

Project.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "ArrayLayouts"
 uuid = "4c555306-a7a7-4459-81d9-ec55ddd5c99a"
 authors = ["Sheehan Olver <[email protected]>"]
-version = "1.0.3"
+version = "1.0.4"
 
 [deps]
 FillArrays = "1a297f60-69ca-5386-bcde-b61e274b549b"

src/mul.jl

@@ -203,10 +203,6 @@ macro layoutmul(Typ)
             ArrayLayouts.mul!(dest,A,B,α,β)
         LinearAlgebra.mul!(dest::AbstractMatrix, A::AbstractMatrix, B::$Typ, α::Number, β::Number) =
             ArrayLayouts.mul!(dest,A,B,α,β)
-        LinearAlgebra.mul!(dest::AbstractMatrix, A::$Typ, B::Diagonal, α::Number, β::Number) =
-            ArrayLayouts.mul!(dest,A,B,α,β)
-        LinearAlgebra.mul!(dest::AbstractMatrix, A::Diagonal, B::$Typ, α::Number, β::Number) =
-            ArrayLayouts.mul!(dest,A,B,α,β)
         LinearAlgebra.mul!(dest::AbstractMatrix, A::$Typ, B::$Typ, α::Number, β::Number) =
             ArrayLayouts.mul!(dest,A,B,α,β)
 
@@ -237,10 +233,17 @@ macro layoutmul(Typ)
             (*)(A::LinearAlgebra.AdjointQ{<:Any,<:LinearAlgebra.LQPackedQ}, B::$Typ) = ArrayLayouts.mul(A,B)
         end
     end
-    for Struc in (:AbstractTriangular, :Diagonal)
+    for Struc in (:AbstractTriangular, :Diagonal, :Bidiagonal, :SymTridiagonal, :Tridiagonal)
+        # starting from Julia v1.10, the last four could be put into a single Union to
+        # reduce the number of mul! methods; or perhaps addressed as some common supertype
         ret = quote
             $ret
 
+            LinearAlgebra.mul!(dest::AbstractMatrix, A::$Typ, B::LinearAlgebra.$Struc, α::Number, β::Number) =
+                ArrayLayouts.mul!(dest,A,B,α,β)
+            LinearAlgebra.mul!(dest::AbstractMatrix, A::LinearAlgebra.$Struc, B::$Typ, α::Number, β::Number) =
+                ArrayLayouts.mul!(dest,A,B,α,β)
+
             (*)(A::LinearAlgebra.$Struc, B::$Typ) = ArrayLayouts.mul(A,B)
             (*)(A::$Typ, B::LinearAlgebra.$Struc) = ArrayLayouts.mul(A,B)
         end