Unqualified use of `UInt128`

[giordano]

┌ Random123
│  WARNING: Constructor for type "UInt128" was extended in `Random123` without explicit qualification or import.
│    NOTE: Assumed "UInt128" refers to `Base.UInt128`. This behavior is deprecated and may differ in future versions.`
│    NOTE: This behavior may have differed in Julia versions prior to 1.12.
│    Hint: If you intended to create a new generic function of the same name, use `function UInt128 end`.
│    Hint: To silence the warning, qualify `UInt128` as `Base.UInt128` in the method signature or explicitly `import Base: UInt128`.
└  

I presume that comes from

Random123.jl/src/arm/aesni_common.jl

Line 22 in c8ba9d5

@inline UInt128(x::ArmVec128) = convert(UInt128, x)

and

Random123.jl/src/x86/aesni_common.jl

Line 13 in c8ba9d5

UInt128(x::__m128i) = convert(UInt128, x)

[sunoru]

Thanks for reporting this! I guess it makes sense to just explicitly import it to fix it?

[giordano]

Yes, defining the methods as

Base.UInt128(...) = ...

is enough, if you do intend to extend Base.UInt128. I think the warning message is fairly clear (apart from the fact that it doesn't tell you which is the offending definition, so one needs to guess a little bit).