[julia-users] problem with a macro generating a type with inner constructor

[Ariel Keselman]

working on the GeometricPredicates package, I want to generate a few mostly 
similar types like this:

macro mymac(name)
    n = name.args[1]
    quote
        type $n
            x::Int64
            $n(num::Int64) = new(num)
        end
    end
end

@mymac(:mynewtype)
println(mynewtype)

It raises an error (mynewtype is undefined) unless I comment out the inner 
constructor. Is this a bug? I couldn't find anything similar in the mailing 
lists

any thoughts? Thanks!