todo

compiler/src/prog8/compiler/astprocessing/AstChecker.kt

@@ -1835,7 +1835,7 @@ internal class AstChecker(private val program: Program,
                 if(targetDatatype in ArrayDatatypes && sourceValue is ArrayLiteral)
                     true  // assigning array literal to an array variable is allowed, size and type are checked elsewhere
                 else {
-                    errors.err("cannot assign new value to variable of type $targetDatatype", position)
+                    errors.err("cannot assign this value to variable of type $targetDatatype", position)
                     false
                 }
             }

docs/source/todo.rst

@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ Maybe this routine can be made more intelligent.  See usesOtherRegistersWhileEva
 Future Things and Ideas
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
+- remove support for array variable initialization with a single value, just require explicitly creating the value array   [42] * 10   (which is what the compiler now does for you implicitly)
+- should the array-to-array assignment support be removed and instead require an explicit copy function call? What prog8_lib_arraycopy() now does.
+- should we add a cleararray builtin function that can efficiently set every element in the array to the given value
+
 - improve detection that a variable is not read before being written so that initializing it to zero can be omitted  (only happens now if a vardecl is immediately followed by a for loop for instance)
 - Improve the SublimeText syntax file for prog8, you can also install this for 'bat': https://github.com/sharkdp/bat?tab=readme-ov-file#adding-new-syntaxes--language-definitions
 - Can we support signed % (remainder) somehow?