array declaration

I'm looks for the syntax to do

int[20] peterSkills = {1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1, 2,2,2,2,2,2,2, 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3, 2,2, 3, 2};

and I can't find a mention of it in docs, or examples.

That's because the best you can do is a plural typed constant (which is... probably good enough).

zekaonar said:

I can't find a mention of it in docs, or examples.

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ASH has no syntax for initializing a composite variable like that; the right-hand side of the equals has to evaluate to an "expression".

Arrays and records, at least, would be very useful. I can also imagine syntax for maps - multiple key/value pairs - although since you can have multi-dimensional maps - maps of maps of ... - that might end up getting obscure.

Parser.parseVariable() is the method that would need to be modified.

Feel free to make a Feature Request - but don't hold your breath waiting for it to be implemented.

Turns out this has been implemented now and you can use exactly the syntax which didn't used to work.