syntax suggestion

Using Swift
1

Dear Sir/madam,I have a fuction:

import Foundation

public func data(with string:String?) -> Data? {
    if let string = string {
        return string.data(using: String.Encoding.utf8)
    }
    return nil
}

When I use it like:

let data = data(with: "Hello")

There is a compile error: variable used within it's own initial value.

If write like:

let stringData = data(with: "Hello")

Everything is OK.

So I wonder why not support the syntax like:

let data = data(with: "Hello")

Yours sincerely
Rangding Zhang

2

Hi, Rangding. This is a known issue, tracked by SR-1846 <https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-1846&gt;\. Essentially the compiler is not smart enough to know that you mean the existing function 'data' rather than the variable you are defining.

Best,
Jordan

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On Oct 27, 2016, at 19:06, 张让定 via swift-users <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:

Dear Sir/madam,
I have a fuction:

import Foundation

public func data(with string:String?) -> Data? {
    if let string = string {
        return string.data(using: String.Encoding.utf8)
    }
    return nil
}
When I use it like:

let data = data(with: "Hello")
There is a compile error: variable used within it's own initial value.

If write like:

let stringData = data(with: "Hello")
Everything is OK.

So I wonder why not support the syntax like:

let data = data(with: "Hello")

Yours sincerely
Rangding Zhang

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