Yeah, I know it does. But it does not do what you think it does. That's
what I was trying to point out.
Please consider reading the docs, especially the chapter
types: http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/release-0.3/manual/types/
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.
>
