[swift-users] Redeclaration of guard variable is ignored at top-level

zh ao owenzx at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 03:39:23 CDT 2016


You should file a bug on the first sample.

Zhaoxin

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Saagar Jha via swift-users <
swift-users at swift.org> wrote:

> Looks like a bug…strangely, lldb’s giving number: Int = 5678.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:18 PM Martin R via swift-users <
> swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wonder why the Swift compiler does not complain about the
>> redeclaration of `number` after the guard-statement in top-level code:
>>
>>     // main.swift
>>     import Swift
>>
>>     guard let number = Int("1234") else { fatalError() }
>>     print(number) // Output: 1234
>>     let number = 5678
>>     print(number) // Output: 1234
>>
>> It looks as if the statement `let number = 5678` is completely ignored.
>>
>> However, doing the same inside a function causes a compiler error:
>>
>>     func foo() {
>>         guard let number = Int("1234") else { fatalError() }
>>         print(number)
>>         let number = 5678 //  error: definition conflicts with previous
>> value
>>     }
>>
>> Tested with
>> - Xcode 7.3.1, "Default" and "Snapshot 2016-06-06 (a)" toolchain
>> - Xcode 8 beta.
>>
>> Am I overlooking something or is that a bug?
>>
>> Martin
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