JuliaLang/julia — pull request #5250 by malmaud (2013-12-28 17:03:55+00:00)
Title: Added convert(::Type{Symbol}, ::String) method

In reference to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/julia-dev/string$20symbol$20convert/julia-dev/GNssb2KDTTE/BuqvmzcA6z8J