how to vectorize julia Convex inequality constraints

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I'm trying to vectorize an inequality constraint comparing two Convex types. On one side, I have Convex.MaxAtoms, and on the other side, I have Variables. I want to do something like the following:

using Convex
N = 10
t = Variable(1)
v = Variable(N)
x = Variable(1)
z = rand(100)

problem = minimize(x)
problem.constraints += [t >= 0]

ccc = Vector{Convex.MaxAtom}(N)
for i = 1:N
    c = -(1. + minimum(x.*z))
    cc = t + c
    ccc[i] = max(cc,0.)
end
problem.constraints += [ccc <= v]

but I'm getting the following error on the final constraint:

ERROR: LoadError: MethodError: no method matching isless(::Complex{Int64}, ::Int64)

I'm not sure where the Int64 types are coming in. Is there a better way of adding this constraint besides looping through and adding individual comparisons like

for i = 1:N
      problem.constraints += [ccc[i] <= v[i]]
end

I'm trying to avoid this because eventually my 10 will be much larger.

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jjjjjj On BEST ANSWER

In this case (thanks to Dr. Udell), it works to vectorize as

c = -(1. + xisim + minimum(x.*z))
cc = t + c
ccc = max(cc,0.)
problem.constraints += [ccc <= v]