[swift-users] Initializing an empty dictionary

[Dmitri Gribenko]

Hi Adriano,

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Adriano Ferreira via swift-users
<swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Does anyone know why Swift won’t let me use the alternative way below to
> init the dictionary?
>
> public extension SequenceType where Self.Generator.Element: Hashable {
>
>     @warn_unused_result
>     func frequencies() -> [Self.Generator.Element: Int] {
>         var dictionary: [Self.Generator.Element: Int] = [:]
>         // var dictionary: Dictionary<Self.Generator.Element, Int>() // <<<
> Not allowed!

It produces a bad error message, unfortunately.  The issue is that you
have a ':' instead of '='.

But, that also fails.  Only after I remove 'Self.' the compiler accepts it:

var dictionary = Dictionary<Generator.Element, Int>()

I would recommend you to file two issues on bugs.swift.org, the first
one about a bad diagnostic for your code, and the second one about the
compiler rejecting "var dictionary =
Dictionary<Self.Generator.Element, Int>()" in the code above (when the
equal sign is used).

Dmitri

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