On Friday, December 19, 2014 6:38:29 PM UTC+10, Andreas Noack wrote: > > I was surprised to see get a Float64 return value from > > let > x::Int = 1.0 > end > 1.0 > > Could anyone explain the reasoning behind this? Why is it not returning > the value of the variable, i.e. after the conversion to Int? >
To quote Jeff here https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7341 "= returns the right-hand side every time. No exceptions." Cheers Lex
