Avoid eltype degrading to Union{}
for empty map/broadcast
#664
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This reverts to using
Core.Compiler.return_type
for map/broadcast, butonly in the very restricted case that the output container is completely
empty.
This is consistent with the way that return_type is used in Base for
collect and broadcast for empty collections only.
Fixes #528 using the strategy from #528 (comment)