Unable to have array of NimNodes declared with const

[PMunch]

While trying to create a mapping table from strings to internal types for use in a macro I noticed I got weird errors when trying to have NimNodes in a const array:

static:
  let testArr = [parseExpr("int"), parseExpr("float")]
  const testArr2 = [parseExpr("int"), parseExpr("float")]

  echo testArr[0]
  echo testArr2[0]

This creates an error "Error: cannot generate VM code for int" for the second echo statement. Removing the echo statement makes it work fine, even with the declaration of the const. The let works fine.

[Yardanico]

Maybe it doesn't make sense to make a compile-time const?

[PMunch]

Well doing it like this:

const test2 = [parseExpr("int"), parseExpr("float")]
static:
  echo treeRepr(test2[0])

or like this

const test2 = [parseExpr("int"), parseExpr("float")]
echo treeRepr(test2[0])

crashes the compiler with the error

lib/core/macros.nim(377, 1) Error: internal error: expr(nkIdent); unknown node kind
No stack traceback available
To create a stacktrace, rerun compilation with ./koch temp c <file>

[andreaferretti]

well, just use let inside the static block. It is static, it will not be there at runtime

[PMunch]

Yeah I know how to work around it, but at the very least this should throw an better error. Or in the case of the compiler crashes an actual error instead.