[swift-users] Assigning a variable to itself

[Saagar Jha]

It appears that trying to assign a variable to itself is an error:

var foo = 5
foo = foo // error: assigning a variable to itself

However, I was thinking about this and was wondering why this is an error and not a warning. If, for example, the assignment had a side effect (e.g. a didSet block) I’d think it would be warning, possibly ignorable with a set of parentheses. Thoughts?

Saagar Jha

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