Whoops, I did botch up the syntax on my listed example.
I compiled release-0.6; and sure enough `let numbers: [int, ..3] = [1,2,3];` compiles.
`let numbers: ~[int, ..3] = ~[1,2,3];` does not compile on my system though. Ditto for the @ sigil.
(Expected `~[int * 3] but found ~[<VI2>]`)
My understanding is that the first example [from the docs] allocates the vector on the stack.
My uncompilable examples should be equivalent except that they use the heap for storage.
Is there a reason this shouldn't compile?
Thanks so much for the reply!
In fact you just want:
let numbers: ~[int] = ~[1,2,3];
I was thinking you might have a function that operates on some fixed length vector.
For e.g: `fn foo(bar: ~[int, ..3]) { ... }`, and the compiler would enforce that you only pass vectors of length 3 to that function.
But since I can't get `~[int, ..3] = ~[1,2,3]` (etc.) to compile that seems to be impossible w/ vectors on the heap?
It's a bug. Sorry about that. For now, write the type as `~([int, ..3])`.
I stand corrected -- thanks, didn't realize that you could have a pointer to a fixed-length vector.
There are several known compiler bugs with any trait types other than `@Trait`. Please do continue to file any bugs you find, though—all crash bugs are bugs that need to be fixed :)