set[int8] cannot initialized with values about nimskull HOT 4 OPEN

I believe you meant set[int8] rather than seq[int8]? If so, could you update the title and body?

As as an aside, you can also use 1'i8 instead of 1.int8 (it's a bit shorter).

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sure seq -> set, sorry for confusion

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The examples in the body are still wrong, as in those should definitely be type errors; since you're attempting to assign a set to a sequence. The work around is confusing, is there a converter at play there because it would not work?

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this is more related to integer literals inference which most time inference to int and don't respect other int/uint types.
other error examples:

const
  my_array: array[4, int8] = [1, 1, 1, 1]
  my_tuple: tuple[x, y: int8] = (1, 1)

var
  x: int32
  y: int32

x = 1 shl x
y = 1 shr y

Error: type mismatch: got 'array[0..3, int]' for '[1, 1, 1, 1]' but expected 'array[0..3, int8]'
Error: type mismatch: got '(int, int)' for '(1, 1)' but expected 'tuple[x: int8, y: int8]'
Error: type mismatch: got 'int' for '1 shl x' but expected 'int32'
Error: type mismatch: got 'int' for '1 shr y' but expected 'int32'

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