Julia is not object oriented, so you only put constructors inside the type
definition, which are then inner constructors.
Inner constructors overwrite the default constructor, so the function
boss() replaces foo(::Int64).
What you probably want is:
type foo
a::Int
end
function boss(::foo)
println("Hey, boss!")
end
Am Sonntag, 14. Juni 2015 13:26:28 UTC+2 schrieb Ranjan Anantharaman:
>
> Hello,
>
> How do I initialize this composite type in Julia?
>
> type foo
> a::Int64
> function boss()
> println("Hey, boss!")
> end
> end
>
> If I do f = foo(1), then I get the following error:
>
> ERROR: MethodError: `convert` has no method matching convert(::Type{foo},
> ::Int64)
> This may have arisen from a call to the constructor foo(...),
> since type constructors fall back to convert methods.
> Closest candidates are:
> call{T}(::Type{T}, ::Any)
> convert{T}(::Type{T}, ::T)
> in call at base.jl:40
>
> How do I create an object of type foo?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
