[swift-users] Swift 4 "Cannot use mutating member on immutable value: 'self' is immutable"

[Jon Shier]

	It also doesn’t explain why removeFirst would work but popFirst doesn’t. The mutation to the underlying array should be the same, the only different is that one returns the element optionally. It also doesn’t explain why popFirst doesn’t show up I the autocomplete but compiles anyway.



Jon

> On Sep 14, 2017, at 8:16 AM, Vladimir.S via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> On 14.09.2017 11:14, Quinn "The Eskimo!" via swift-users wrote:
>> On 14 Sep 2017, at 03:56, somu subscribe via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org <mailto:swift-users at swift.org>> wrote:
>>> popFirst is not available in the Array …
>> Right.  This makes sense when you consider the standard setup for an array, namely, a variable length buffer of items.  Removing the first element is expensive, whereas removing the last element (`popLast()`) is cheap.
>> If you run your simplified example in Xcode 8 you get an error that hints at what’s going on.
>> var array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>> _ = array.popFirst()
>>     ~~~~~~^~~~~~~~
>> error: 'ArraySlice<Int>' is not convertible to '[Int]'
> 
> Sorry, could you clarify, I can't understand.
> What should be the error message here and why at all we should have an error here?
> 
> Are we forced to use this code to pop first element in array? :
> var array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
> let x = array[0...].popFirst()
> print(x!) // 1
> print(array) // [2,3,4,5]
> 
> And why we shouldn't be allowed to have popFirst() for array? Yes, it is expensive, but is it a right reason to disallow it totally? In many situations we have a small arrays and don't care so much how fast the first element will be pop'ed.
> I hope I'm just missing something.
> 
> Vladimir.
> 
>> Notably, I put Rick’s code into Xcode 8 (Xcode 8.3.3 on macOS 10.12.6 with a new command line tool project) and I get the same error there.
>> let mf = self.pendingFetchers.popFirst()
>>          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~
>> error: 'ArraySlice<ModelFetcher>' is not convertible to '[ModelFetcher]’
>>                    *                   *                   *
>> @Rick, there’s two things in play here:
>> * The diagnostic is clearly bogus and you should definitely file a bug about that.
>> <https://bugs.swift.org/>
>> Please post your bug number, just for the record.
>> * You wrote:
>>> This code compiled fine in Xcode 8 …
>> My tests indicate that it doesn’t.  I suspect that you changed something else during the Swift 4 migration and that’s why you’re seeing it fail.  Can you take another look at the original Xcode 8 code to see what’s else got changed?
>> Share and Enjoy
>> --
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