diff --git a/releasenotes.md b/releasenotes.md
index 08e3265e4..70238cfb2 100644
--- a/releasenotes.md
+++ b/releasenotes.md
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
 - `$foo` variables could be assigned non-compile time values.
 - `$foo[0] = ...` was incorrectly requiring that the assigned values were compile time constants.
 - "Inlined at" would sometimes show the current location.
+- Fixed bug splatting constants into constants.
 
 ### Stdlib changes
 - Improve contract for readline. #2280
diff --git a/src/compiler/sema_expr.c b/src/compiler/sema_expr.c
index 14c57b19a..1b98d60e7 100644
--- a/src/compiler/sema_expr.c
+++ b/src/compiler/sema_expr.c
@@ -1663,7 +1663,7 @@ INLINE bool sema_set_default_argument(SemaContext *context, CalledDecl *callee,
 INLINE Expr **sema_splat_arraylike_insert(SemaContext *context, Expr **args, Expr *arg, ArraySize len, ArrayIndex index)
 {
 	args = sema_prepare_splat_insert(args, len, index);
-	if (expr_is_const(arg))
+	if (sema_cast_const(arg))
 	{
 		for (ArrayIndex i = 0; i < len; i++)
 		{
@@ -1675,6 +1675,11 @@ INLINE Expr **sema_splat_arraylike_insert(SemaContext *context, Expr **args, Exp
 		}
 		return args;
 	}
+	if (context->call_env.kind != CALL_ENV_FUNCTION)
+	{
+		SEMA_ERROR(arg, "Cannot splat a non-constant value in a global context.");
+		return NULL;
+	}
 	Decl *temp = decl_new_generated_var(arg->type, VARDECL_LOCAL, arg->span);
 	Expr *decl_expr = expr_generate_decl(temp, arg);
 	Expr *two = expr_new_expr(EXPR_TWO, arg);
diff --git a/test/test_suite/functions/global_splat.c3t b/test/test_suite/functions/global_splat.c3t
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d2adf1cf6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_suite/functions/global_splat.c3t
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
+const int[*] A = { 1, 2, 3 };
+const int[*] B = { 4, 5, 6 };
+const int[*] C = { ...A, ...B };
+
+fn int main()
+{
+    return 0;
+}
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