Fix help when accessing fields of abstract types #60784
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We don't want to throw an exception if the user needs help and tries to access the field of an abstract type. Instead we want to tell him why this won't work. Fixes JuliaLang#60783
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I think this should be backported to 1.12 and 1.13. |
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The CI error seems to be unrelated. At least I would not know the relationship between an |
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We don't want to throw an exception if the user needs help and tries to access the field of an abstract type. Instead we want to tell him why this won't work.
Fixes #60783