# Initializing array of struct with literals
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/initializing-array-of-struct-with-literals/43073
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [July 14, 2020, 6:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/initializing-array-of-struct-with-literals/43073 "2020-07-14T18:15:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@pauljurczak](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pauljurczak)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2020, 6:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/initializing-array-of-struct-with-literals/43073/1 "2020-07-14T18:15:23Z")
I have:
```julia
using Luxor
pl = [Point(0,0), Point(1,1), Point(2,0), Point(3,0), Point(4,0)]
```
where `Luxor.Point` is defined as:
```julia
struct Point
x::Float64
y::Float64
end
```
Is there a way to initialize `pl` without repeating the constructor call for each element? Something along the lines of:
```julia
pl = Array{Point, 1}[(0,0), (1,1), (2,0), (3,0), (4,0)]
```
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### Author:  [@Henrique\_Becker](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Henrique_Becker)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/initializing-array-of-struct-with-literals/43073/2 "2020-07-14T18:23:35Z")
Yes, use an array comprehension:
```julia
pl = [Point(i, j) for (i, j) in ((0,0), (1, 1), (2, 0), (3, 0), (4, 0))]
```
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### Author:  [@pauljurczak](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pauljurczak)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/initializing-array-of-struct-with-literals/43073/3 "2020-07-14T18:34:19Z")
> [@Henrique\_Becker](#):
>
> `pl = [Point(i, j) for (i, j) in ((0,0), (1, 1), (2, 0), (3, 0), (4, 0))]`
Thank you. This is much less tedious.
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### Author:  [@pdeffebach](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pdeffebach)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/initializing-array-of-struct-with-literals/43073/4 "2020-07-14T19:39:38Z")
Does the `Luxor.Point` constructor allow for taking in a `Tuple`? If so you could just do
```julia
Point.(points)
```
where `points` is a vector of tuples each of length `2`.
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### Author:  [@Henrique\_Becker](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Henrique_Becker)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2020, 7:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/initializing-array-of-struct-with-literals/43073/5 "2020-07-14T19:57:06Z")
Otherwise, this will also work:
```julia
((t,) -> Point(t[1], t[2])).([(0,0), (1, 1), (2, 0), (3, 0), (4, 0)])
```
But it remembers me of:
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### Author:  [@pauljurczak](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pauljurczak)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2020, 2:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/initializing-array-of-struct-with-literals/43073/6 "2020-07-15T02:30:11Z")
> [@pdeffebach](#):
>
> Does the `Luxor.Point` constructor allow for taking in a `Tuple` ?
No, it doesn’t:
```julia
julia> pl = Point.((0,0), (1,1), (2,0), (3,0), (4,0))
ERROR: MethodError: no method matching Point(::Int64, ::Int64, ::Int64, ::Int64, ::Int64)
```
It also does something quite unexpected for me:
```julia
julia> pl = Point.((0,0), (1,1))
(Point(0.0, 1.0), Point(0.0, 1.0))
```
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### Author:  [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/initializing-array-of-struct-with-literals/43073/7 "2020-07-15T02:35:26Z")
That’s just broadcasting; you could get what you want with it: `Point.(0:4, 0)`
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### Author:  [@pauljurczak](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pauljurczak)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2020, 6:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/initializing-array-of-struct-with-literals/43073/8 "2020-07-15T06:00:09Z")
I defined:
```julia
Point((x, y)::Tuple{Real, Real}) = Point(x, y)
```
and now I can write:
```julia
pl = Point.([(0, 0), (1, 1), (2, 0), (3, 1), (4, 0)])
```