[julia-users] Invalid redefinition when redefining an identical parameterized type

[Kristoffer Carlsson]

I have a file that defines a type and a few functions. Sometimes I want to 
reload this file in the REPL to update some modified functions in the file. 
If the type is parameterized then this will fail even though the type 
definition does not change.

Example:


julia> type Foo
       a::Int
       end

julia> type Foo
       a::Int
       end

julia> type Foo2{T}
       a::T
       end

julia> type Foo2{T}
       a::T
       end
ERROR: invalid redefinition of constant Foo2


Is there a good way to work around this? I don't really want to workspace() 
all the time because then I have to compile everything again.