<div dir="ltr">The problem for me is that is so counter intuitive I didn't even know you could do that.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Jeremy Pereira <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy.j.pereira@googlemail.com" target="_blank">jeremy.j.pereira@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I don’t understand what the problem is<br>
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> On 5 Jan 2016, at 12:39, James Campbell via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> See this code:<br>
> var distanceCache: [Int: Int] = Dictionary<Int, Int>()<br>
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> It is very long and tedious to write especially if what I am storing changes.<br>
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> I propose we be allowed to do the following:<br>
> var distanceCache: [Int: Int] = []<br>
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</span>You can do<br>
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var distanceCache: [Int: Int] = [:]<br>
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Also<br>
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var distanceCache2 = [Int: Int]()<br>
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> Perhaps this dictionary syntax is just confusing and it was a bad idea to make it the same as an array. Most languages use "{" so why did swift choose to share "[" with arrays and dictionaries.<br>
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</span>It’s not the same, you need the colons inside. I imagine that braces were discarded on the grounds that it would confuse the compiler with respect to closures, for example<br>
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var myClosure = {} // is a variable of type () -> ()<br>
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