Since you replaced the inner constructor with an explicit one, you also need to define an outer constructor.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 7:13 PM Jason Merrill <jwmerr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to make a wrapper around an NTuple that takes varargs, but I > can't figure out what the constructor should look like. I thought the > following would work, but it throws an error > > jwm@jason-2 ~/s/julia> julia > _ > _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing > (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org > _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?help" for help. > | | | | | | |/ _` | | > | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.4.0 (2015-10-08 06:20 UTC) > _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official http://julialang.org/ release > |__/ | x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 > > julia> immutable NTSeries{N, T} > coefficients::NTuple{N, T} > > NTSeries(a...) = new(a) > end > > julia> NTSeries(1.0, 2.0) > ERROR: MethodError: `convert` has no method matching convert(::Type{ > NTSeries{N,T}}, ::Float64, ::Float64) > This may have arisen from a call to the constructor NTSeries{N,T}(...), > since type constructors fall back to convert methods. > Closest candidates are: > call{T}(::Type{T}, ::Any) > convert{T}(::Type{T}, ::T) > in call at essentials.jl:57 > > Any pointers? >
