Check issue #1470[1] for a long, long discussion on this topic.

[1]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1470

On 5 May 2014 11:32, Alain Bouchard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why base Int/Float types cannot be constructed like the remaining types?
> This seems to make the type system not uniform ...
>
> julia> Int(1)
> ERROR: type cannot be constructed
>
> julia> BigInt(1)
> 1
>
>

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