I think you’re confusing the 2 in an Array parameter set with the number of
items, when it’s the number of dimensions. I’m pretty sure you’re creating a
Vector, not a Matrix.
You also probably want to work with UTF8String, not String.
— John
On Mar 23, 2014, at 6:51 PM, Collin Glass <collinglas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to make a constructor for a custom type in Julia:
>
> type Cell
> Base::Dict{String, String}
> zLayers::Array{Dict{String, String},2}
> X::Int
> Y::Int
>
> Cell() = new(Dict{String,String}(),[Dict{String, String}(),Dict{String,
> String}()],0,0)
> end
>
> try
> gamestate = Cell()
> catch err
> print("connection ended with error $err\n")
> end
> Throws error:
>
> connection ended with error
> MethodError(convert,(Array{Dict{String,String},2},[Dict{String,String}(),Dict{String,String}()]))
> So how do we do proper initialization for Arrays of Dictionaries?
>
