Why does my explicit init crash?

[TheNamesJames (James)]

Thanks for sharing the history @Nevin. Much appreciated!

It seems there's some different opinions about whether this is a bug or a feature:

SE-0242: Synthesize default values for the memberwise initializer

I strongly disagree that this is a bug. Initial value expressions should not have side effects, ideally, and if they do, it is easier to reason about them if we just say that they are always executed at the top of the initializer, than if where and when they're executed depends on the DI analysis. To put it another way, initial value expressions are simple syntax sugar that you can eliminate by writing out the initialization by hand in each initializer; if your initial value expressions have s…

I can see both sides of the argument. Now that I understand what's going on, I can work around it