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 > >
