Stupid question about initializing arrays

[Craig Flannagan]

What's the most slickest way to initialize arrays (which are attributes) in a constructor?
For example, the following code does not work:

class Thing
{
  int[] numbers;
  public Thing()
  {
    numbers = { 3, 4, 5, 6 };
  }
}

So I have to do the following instead:

class Thing
{
  int[] numbers;
  public Thing()
  {
    int[] temp = { 3, 4, 5, 6 };
    numbers = temp;
  }
}

Two questions:
Was the 2nd code snipplet the best "professional" way to do it?
And why wouldn't the first code snipplet work, even though I can do it if I declare an array and initialize all on a single line?
Many thanks!
CF
[ April 25, 2002: Message edited by: Craig Flannagan ]

[Roy Ben Ami]

Hi.
well i woudlnt do it the second way.. just doesnt sem that professional tome but i may be wrong.
If you really want to intialize it why not like you said just do it at the first line when you define th e variable too.
like:
int[] numbers={4,5,6,7}
what diffrence does it make if you put it in the constructor or not?
the intialization will take place anyway every time you create an object.
thats how i would do it anyway, but im sure a bartendar here will answer a better reply.

[Craig Flannagan]

Ok, bad example.
What about this scenario:
Declaring array as an attribute (no initialization)...
And then initialize the array in the constructor with values passed as arguements...
How would you handle this?
Thanks,
CF

[Roy Ben Ami]

hmm.
i see your point.
in that case i would do exactly as you did.
maybe just as a precaution you could also set the temp array at the end to null just to make sure you dont have 2 refercnes to it. although in this case because its a local variable it will get deleted anyway.

[Jim Yingst]

Try this:

    numbers = new int[] { 3, 4, 5, 6 };

[Craig Flannagan]

Jim Yingst -
That's the first time I've seen anything of that sort. Thanks for the education!
-CF
[ April 25, 2002: Message edited by: Craig Flannagan ]

[Roy Ben Ami]

wow!
same here.
thanks Jim.