Converting String to Symbol during struct construction

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Base.@kwdef mutable struct MyStruct
    id::Int
    value::Symbol = :fixed
    notimportant::Int = -1
    function MyStruct(id, value, notimportant)
        new(id, Symbol(value), notimportant)
    end
end

MyStruct(id=1, value=:a)       
MyStruct(id=2, value="b")
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