Hi, i am new to Julia and i am little bit confused about type conversion. In the docs is written following:
When appended to a *variable* in a statement context, the :: operator means something a bit different: it declares the variable to always have the specified type, like a type declaration in a statically-typed language such as C. Every value assigned to the variable will be converted to the declared type using convert() <http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/stdlib/base/#Base.convert> So I tried a little experiment. a::Array{Cdouble, 2} = [1 2 3;4 5 6] #this throws ERROR: TypeError: typeassert: expected Array{Float64,2}, got Array{Int64,2} in eval at ./boot.jl:263 experiment no. 2: convert(Array{Cdouble,2}, [1 2 3;4 5 6]) # this outputs 2x3 Array{Float64,2}: 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 So the conversion works.. I thought, that the conversion will be automatic, but it isn't. What am I getting wrong? Thanks Martin
