From 2309198af1521659a6b1d3cae7722eb7f5ed3df2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Karpinski <stefan@karpinski.org>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 12:47:40 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] reinstate "useless" String() inner constructor (#16212)

---
 base/boot.jl          | 2 ++
 test/strings/basic.jl | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/base/boot.jl b/base/boot.jl
index 92adfcbe58901..cb8b6795c478f 100644
--- a/base/boot.jl
+++ b/base/boot.jl
@@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ abstract DirectIndexString <: AbstractString
 
 immutable String <: AbstractString
     data::Array{UInt8,1}
+    # required to make String("foo") work (#15120):
+    String(d::Array{UInt8,1}) = new(d)
 end
 
 include(fname::String) = ccall(:jl_load_, Any, (Any,), fname)
diff --git a/test/strings/basic.jl b/test/strings/basic.jl
index efda879c33527..2a6a3660f376a 100644
--- a/test/strings/basic.jl
+++ b/test/strings/basic.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # This file is a part of Julia. License is MIT: http://julialang.org/license
 
+# constructors
+@test String([0x61,0x62,0x63,0x21]) == "abc!"
+@test String("abc!") == "abc!"
+
 # {starts,ends}with
 @test startswith("abcd", 'a')
 @test startswith("abcd", "a")