You're looking for an Enum or enumeration. There's an example in the source tree (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/examples/enum.jl) and there's been some discussion about including it in base (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3080).
On Wednesday, August 6, 2014 10:42:33 AM UTC-4, Joe Vijay wrote: > > > Julia Noob here. > > How to create a variable of custom type which will allow one of known > three values. > > Lets say, variable i is of type OneTwoThree which can be assigned 1 or a > 2 or a 3 > > Thank you, > > -Joe > > >
