"cannot convert type to julia type"

[mschauer]

The following

const N = 1000
n = 20
if false
    for i in 1:N
        j = rand(1:n)
    end 
end

fails with

ERROR: LoadError: error compiling anonymous: cannot convert type to a julia type
 in include at ./boot.jl:249
 in include_from_node1 at loading.jl:128
 in process_options at ./client.jl:319
 in _start at ./client.jl:403

I am on

Julia Version 0.4.0-dev+3388
Commit ab5c4cf* (2015-02-16 22:23 UTC)
Platform Info:
  System: Linux (i686-linux-gnu)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU      T2450  @ 2.00GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 32
  BLAS: libopenblas (DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Banias)
  LAPACK: libopenblas
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-3.3

Related to #9947 ?