I can't see any argument for why it would be wrong to add the requested
method. Please open an issue (or better yet a Pull request) on github, so
that we can have more opinions on the matter.
The implementation could be as simple as
*convert{T:AbstractString}(::Type{T}, c::Char) = convert(T,
On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 10:51:54 AM UTC+10, Ronald L. Rivest wrote:
Using Julia 0.3.4. The following seems somehow inconsistent. Is there
something about the philosophy of `convert` I am missing??
*julia convert(ASCIIString,'a')*
*ERROR: `convert` has no method matching
