Julia no automatic type conversion inside function

[zarzle]

Julia automatic type conversion from Int to Float does not work inside functions. Is this a bug?

The issue is more clear with some code:

type A
    a::FloatingPoint
end

instance = A(1)
#println("$instance") -> A(1.0)

#FINE
instance.a = 2
#println("$instance") -> A(2.0)

#THROWS ERROR
function fn()
    instance.a = 3
end
fn()

The error of the assignment inside the function is just a conversion error:

ERROR: type: setfield!: expected FloatingPoint, got Int64
 in fn at /home/john/Desktop/test.jl:18
 in include at ./boot.jl:245
 in include_from_node1 at loading.jl:128
 in process_options at ./client.jl:285
 in _start at ./client.jl:354
while loading /home/john/Desktop/test.jl, in expression starting on line 20

I know that I can just add a decimal point to the end of the digit (i.e. "3.") in order to convert it to a float before assignment. However, the project that I am working on would be much easier if automatic conversion just worked inside functions.

Is this a bug? Am I doing something wrong?

[JeffBezanson]

What version of julia is this (output of versioninfo())? I believe this has been fixed. Works for me on master.

[zarzle]

It's fixed. I just updated to Version 0.3.0-rc1+327 and now it works fine. Sorry for the obsolete question.

Thanks for the quick reply!