I was on
$ julia -v
julia version 0.4.8-pre
It is comforting that the syntax in Julia 0.5 is more what you would expect.
I use git for my updates and on your recommendation i did
git branch -r
git checkout release-0.5
git pull
git make
Now I am on version
$ julia -v
julia version 0.5.1-pre
Thanks!