Merge pull request #15 from JuliaLang/jcb/string

Typealias String after String -> AbstractString rename
JuliaLang · Nov 4, 2014 · f801872 · f801872
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diff --git a/src/Compat.jl b/src/Compat.jl
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 module Compat
+
 using Base.Meta
 
+if VERSION < v"0.4.0-dev+1387"
+    typealias AbstractString String
+    export AbstractString
+end
+
 if VERSION < v"0.4.0-dev+980"
     macro Dict(pairs...)
         esc(Expr(:dict, pairs...))

diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -50,3 +50,7 @@ end
 @test @compat split("a,b,,c", ',', limit=2,keep=true) == ["a", "b,,c"]
 @test @compat split("a,b,,c", ',', keep=false) == ["a", "b", "c"]
 @test @compat split("a,b,,c", ',', keep=true) == ["a", "b", "", "c"]
+
+if VERSION < v"0.4.0-dev+1387"
+    @test isdefined(Main, :AbstractString)
+end