But Simon, Julia allows me to define this composite type. There just
doesn't seem to be any obvious way to create an object of that type.
Additionally, writing the type that way results in the same error.
On Sunday, 14 June 2015 17:10:56 UTC+5:30, Simon Danisch wrote:
>
> Julia is not object oriented, so you only put constructors inside the type
> definition, which are then inner constructors.
> Inner constructors overwrite the default constructor, so the function
> boss() replaces foo(::Int64).
> What you probably want is:
> type foo
> a::Int
> end
> function boss(::foo)
> println("Hey, boss!")
> end
> Am Sonntag, 14. Juni 2015 13:26:28 UTC+2 schrieb 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.
>>
>
