groovy bug? -- creating an initialized float array?

Question

I'm using Groovy 1.8.3 (in Grails 2.0). I need to declare some float arrays, and am using the standard java syntax, e.g.:

 float rentVal[] = {1.37f, 1.69f, 2.07f, 2.53f}

The compiler errors on this, saying: expecting '}', found '='

Perhaps because it's late night (pacific time) I'm confusing something here. My question is what's the right way to do this in Groovy.

Thanks

Answer 1

Tried this in GroovyConsole:

groovy> def rentVal = [1.37f, 1.69f, 2.07f, 2.53f] as float[] 
groovy> rentVal.class 

Result: class [F 

EDIT, it's enough to do this:

float[] a = [1.0f, 2.3f, 3.4f]