title: Why can't parse transform float string into int?
body: <p>When I try to use parse this way: <code>parse(Int64, "3.1459")</code>, I get an error, because '.' is an invalid base 10 digit. I know the error gets raised because of the period, but is there any particular reason why Julia couldn't convert a float string to a integer like this? Any other way to do it?</p>