Implement eltype for list

[saolof]

...Otherwise this can be a very easy to miss source of type instability. Adding this line gave me a fivefold speedup on a problem I had

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[saolof]

I'm seeing that #39 tried making a PR to do this several years ago, but that the build would fail and the PR didn't get merged. This does in fact implement the same functionality but the build seems to pass.

I'll try adding the full set of Tests from that PR with the names fixed so that they work