weird UndefRefError when trying to transpose a matrix of strings

[shashi]

julia> mx = ["$i-$j" for i= 1:10, j=1:10];

julia> @tensor t[i,j] := mx[j,i]
ERROR: UndefRefError: access to undefined reference
 [inlined code] from simdloop.jl:73
 in add_micro! at /home/shashi/.julia/v0.4/TensorOperations/src/implementation/kernels.jl:6
 in add_rec! at /home/shashi/.julia/v0.4/TensorOperations/src/implementation/recursive.jl:13
 in add! at /home/shashi/.julia/v0.4/TensorOperations/src/implementation/stridedarray.jl:25
 in deindexify! at /home/shashi/.julia/v0.4/TensorOperations/src/indexnotation/indexedobject.jl:57
 in deindexify at /home/shashi/.julia/v0.4/TensorOperations/src/indexnotation/indexedobject.jl:47

But

julia> mx = Any["$i-$j" for i= 1:10, j=1:10];

       @tensor t[i,j] := mx[j,i]

10x10 Array{Any,2}:
    ...

Works!

It's okay if it's a finicky detail that you don't plan on fixing.

[Jutho]

using t = similar(mx); @tensor t[i,j] = mx[j,i] seems to work (do I never thought about anything else than numbers when writing the implementation so I am positively surprised). There must be something wrong with how I deal with := (probably similar problem as with #14 ). I'll look into this soon.

[Jutho]

I am going to close this; feel free to reopen. It is not working at all in latest versions of TensorOperations, but TensorOperations is really about numerical arrays, and things like true*string == string clearly don't hold (in fact the left hand side does not work). It would be to big of a change to fix this, or to provide completely independent implementations for non-numerical types.