@David, What doesn't work for you? Do you mean you're getting the same
error?
On Monday, 15 June 2015 08:55:07 UTC+5:30, Ranjan Anantharaman wrote:
>
> 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.
>>>
>>
