Feature request: list initialisation

[sprock]

Initialisation of a list using this syntax does not compile.

var lst3 : list(list(string)) = [["this", "that", "the other"],["one","two","three"]];

Summary of Problem

[lydia-duncan]

Thanks for reporting! For those that didn't track the email thread, this can be worked around by writing

var lst3: list(list(string)) = new list([new list(["this", "that", "the other"]),new list(["one","two","three"])]); 

or

var lst3: list(list(string)) = [new list(["this", "that", "the other"]),new list(["one","two","three"])]; 

For the future implementer, we think making a new init= for list based off the one that takes an array would work, limiting it to only apply when the list type is a list of lists.

[jabraham17]

This looks to be pretty low-hanging fruit, see the diff here: main...jabraham17:chapel:list-from-nested-array. This actually allows multiple levels of nesting, so a list(list(list(string))) works as well.