From a538f7956217e5ad78186b55c3717857265f8928 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cas Bex <cas.bex@kuleuven.be>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 11:45:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Type stability for StringToValueReference

---
 src/FMI2/convert.jl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/FMI2/convert.jl b/src/FMI2/convert.jl
index 5a8a30a..38cf25c 100644
--- a/src/FMI2/convert.jl
+++ b/src/FMI2/convert.jl
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ Returns the ValueReference or an array of ValueReferences coresponding to the va
 See also [`fmi2StringToValueReference`](@ref)
 """
 function fmi2StringToValueReference(md::fmi2ModelDescription, name::String)
-    reference = nothing
+    reference = typemax(valtype(md.stringValueReferences))
     if haskey(md.stringValueReferences, name)
         reference = md.stringValueReferences[name]
     else