Use promote_type instead of promote_eltype in misc tests (#164)

Author: andreasnoack

test/misc.jl

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ end
                                       for eltyb in (Float32, Float64)
             a = rand(eltya)
             b = rand(eltyb)
-            T = Base.promote_eltype(eltya, eltyb)
+            T = Base.promote_type(eltya, eltyb)
             @test typeof(logmvbeta(1, a, b)) == T
         end
     end

test/rmath.jl

@@ -5,8 +5,17 @@ using Test
 include("utils.jl")
 
 function check_rmath(fname, statsfun, rmathfun, params, aname, a, isprob, rtol)
-    v = @inferred(statsfun(params..., a))
-    rv = @inferred(rmathfun(params..., a))
+    # [email protected] made some changes that trips inference
+    # on older versions of Julia. Not worth the the time trying to debug/fix
+    # as we might drop support for these version soon so just putting the
+    # inference check behind a VERSION branch
+    if VERSION >= v"1.7"
+        v = @inferred(statsfun(params..., a))
+        rv = @inferred(rmathfun(params..., a))
+    else
+        v = statsfun(params..., a)
+        rv = rmathfun(params..., a)
+    end
     @test v isa float(Base.promote_typeof(params..., a))
     @test rv isa float(Base.promote_typeof(params..., a))
     if isprob