[julia-users] How to Initialize a Composite Type

[Ranjan Anantharaman]

Hello,

How do I initialize this composite type in Julia?

type foo
  a::Int64
  function boss()
    println("Hey, boss!")
  end
end

If I do f = foo(1), then I get the following error: 

ERROR: MethodError: `convert` has no method matching convert(::Type{foo}, 
::Int64)
This may have arisen from a call to the constructor foo(...),
since type constructors fall back to convert methods.
Closest candidates are:
  call{T}(::Type{T}, ::Any)
  convert{T}(::Type{T}, ::T)
 in call at base.jl:40

How do I create an object of type foo?

Thanks in advance.