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julia: problematic convesion to Vector{Tuple}
typealias MyTuple (ASCIIString, BitsKind)
type MyType
some_field::Int
function MyType(vec::Vector{MyTuple})
println("INNER")
new(0)
end
end
function MyType(vec)
println("OUTER")
println(" eltype pre=$(eltype(vec))")
c_vec = convert(Vector{MyTuple}, vec) ## this conversion doesn't work!
println(" eltype post=$(eltype(c_vec))")
MyType(c_vec)
end
some_data = [("a", Int32), ("b", Int32)]
some_c_data = convert(Vector{MyTuple}, some_data) ## conversion works here
ex_c_data = MyType(some_c_data) ## <- this works
#ex_data = MyType(some_data) ## <- this keeps calling the
## outer constructor
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