Cint not working in 0.3.7

[dlfivefifty]

julia> Pkg.checkout("Compat")
INFO: Checking out Compat master...
INFO: Pulling Compat latest master...
INFO: Upgrading Calculus: v0.1.6 => v0.1.8

julia> using Compat

julia> @compat(Cint(false))
ERROR: type cannot be constructed

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 0.3.7
Commit cb9bcae (2015-03-23 21:36 UTC)
Platform Info:
  System: Darwin (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3820QM CPU @ 2.70GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  BLAS: libopenblas (USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Sandybridge)
  LAPACK: libopenblas
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-3.3

julia> Pkg.status()
2 required packages:
 - GLPlot                        0.0.5+             master
 - Jewel                         1.0.4
37 additional packages:
 - BinDeps                       0.3.12
 - Calculus                      0.1.8
 - Color                         0.4.5
 - Compat                        0.4.4              master
 - Compose                       0.3.12
 - DataStructures                0.3.9
 - Datetime                      0.1.7
 - Docile                        0.5.2
 - DualNumbers                   0.1.3
 - FactCheck                     0.2.7
 - FixedPointNumbers             0.0.7
 - GLAbstraction                 0.0.5+             master
 - GLFW                          1.0.0-alpha.6
 - GLText                        0.0.4
 - GLWindow                      0.0.5+             master
 - Graphics                      0.1.0
 - Homebrew                      0.1.14
 - Images                        0.4.36
 - ImmutableArrays               0.0.7
 - Iterators                     0.1.8
 - JSON                          0.4.3
 - JuliaParser                   0.6.2
 - LNR                           0.0.1
 - Lazy                          0.8.4
 - Lumberjack                    0.0.3
 - ModernGL                      0.0.5+             master
 - Mustache                      0.0.9
 - NaNMath                       0.0.2
 - Quaternions                   0.0.4
 - Reactive                      0.2.0
 - Requires                      0.1.2
 - SHA                           0.0.4
 - SIUnits                       0.0.3
 - TexExtensions                 0.0.2
 - URIParser                     0.0.5
 - UUID                          0.0.2
 - Zlib                          0.1.8

[dlfivefifty]

On 0.4:

julia> Cint(false)
0

[garrison]

I don't think the problem is with Cint per se. It's that Julia 0.3 does not support this method of converting from Bool to an integer type (even with Compat), but 0.4 does. Sorry, I am wrong.

[dlfivefifty]

But shouldn’t @compat replicate the 0.4 behaviour?

On 21 May 2015, at 1:08 am, Jim Garrison [email protected] wrote:

I don't think the problem is with Cint per se. It's that Julia 0.3 does not support this method of converting from Bool to an integer type (even with Compat), but 0.4 does.

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub #89 (comment).

[garrison]

It would be great if it did. Hopefully somebody with more knowledge of type conversions can comment and/or fix it.

[timholy]

Just add Cint to the calltypes dict. You'll also have to define a cint method (or whatever you want to call it).

[stevengj]

... and even then you'll need @compat Cint(n). Calling typealiases is not possible in Julia 0.3.