Regression test

diff --git a/src/test/compile-fail/coercion-slice.rs b/src/test/compile-fail/coercion-slice.rs
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+// Copyright 2014 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+// Tests that we forbid coercion from `[T, ..n]` to `&[T]`
+
+fn main() {
+    let _: &[int] = [0i]; //~ERROR: mismatched types: expected `&[int]`, found `[int, ..1]`
+}