This was just fixed on master: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/17078
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 1:43 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was just wondering if the following is expected behaviour: > > julia> parse("true") > true > > julia> typeof(parse("true")) > Bool > > julia> parse(Bool, "true") > ERROR: InexactError() > in convert at ./bool.jl:6 > in tryparse_internal at parse.jl:84 > in tryparse_internal at parse.jl:136 > in parse at parse.jl:146 > > > It seems odd that the last line results in an error. Anyone know why? > > Cheers, > > Colin >
