[julia-users] Symbol naming type to Type

[Sal Mangano]

If I have a symbol containing the name of a Type (e.g. :Int64) or an 
expression if qualified by a module e.g., :(Base.ASCIIString) is eval() the 
proper way to convert the symbol/expr to the type it names (e.g. 
eval(:Int64))? Will this work everywhere as long as the named type is 
visible?