In the "Inner Constructors" section of the manual, it says:

The default constructor is equivalent to writing your own inner constructor method that takes all of the object’s fields as parameters (constrained to be of the correct type, if the corresponding field has a type), and passes them to new, returning the resulting object

Which I would read to mean that:

type T1
  x::Int64
end

would be equivalent to:

type T1
  x::Int64
  T1(x::Int64) = new(x)
end

But right below it gives the above equivalent example as:

type T1
  x::Int64
  T1(x) = new(x)
end

Which seems to me to imply that new calls convert on the fields, because non-Int64 arguments are converted to Int64.

In the "Types" section of the manual it says:

Two constructors are generated automatically (these are called default constructors). One accepts any arguments and calls convert() to convert them to the types of the fields, and the other accepts arguments that match the field types exactly.

Which I would read to mean that:

type T1
  x::Int64
end

would be equivalent to:

type T1
  x::Int64
  T1(x::Int64) = new(x)
end

T1(x) = T1(convert(Int64, x))

It seems that these two descriptions of the default constructors (either converting in the outer constructor or converting in new) would behave identically, but it's confusing that it's described both ways in the manual. Is one of them more correct?