xcode8 segmentation fault help

Using Swift
1

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to follow some very simple code examples, and got this weird
situation with a playground:

//: Playground - noun: a place where people can play

import UIKit

let string = "a simple test"
if (string.characters.count > 0) {
    let words = string.components(separatedBy: " ")
    let headline = words.map { (var word) -> String in
        let firstCharacter = word.remove(at: word.startIndex)
        return "\(String(firstCharacter).uppercased())\(word)"
        }.joined(separator: " ")
}

This same code inside a func in a class on a normal project will generate a
segmentation fault error on xcode, when compiling the code.

Anyone has an idea of what is going wrong?

Regards,
LF

2

Swift 3.0 does not support `var` in function/closure parameter list. For some reason Swift parser didn't catch this as syntax error, I'd suggest you to report a bug on bugs.swift.org.

This version works:

let string = "a simple test"
if (string.characters.count > 0) {
     let words = string.components(separatedBy: " ")
     let headline = words.map { wordParam -> String in //<<< immutable
         var word = wordParam //<<< assign to mutable instance
         let firstCharacter = word.remove(at: word.startIndex)
         return "\(String(firstCharacter).uppercased())\(word)"
         }.joined(separator: " ")
}

···

On 27.09.2016 12:51, Luis Ferro via swift-users wrote:

let string = "a simple test"
if (string.characters.count > 0) {
    let words = string.components(separatedBy: " ")
    let headline = words.map { (var word) -> String in
        let firstCharacter = word.remove(at: word.startIndex)
        return "\(String(firstCharacter).uppercased())\(word)"
        }.joined(separator: " ")
}

3

This particular bug has been fixed already on the master branch of Swift, so no need to report it. :-)

Jordan

···

On Sep 27, 2016, at 03:37, Vladimir.S via swift-users <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:

On 27.09.2016 12:51, Luis Ferro via swift-users wrote:

let string = "a simple test"
if (string.characters.count > 0) {
   let words = string.components(separatedBy: " ")
   let headline = words.map { (var word) -> String in
       let firstCharacter = word.remove(at: word.startIndex)
       return "\(String(firstCharacter).uppercased())\(word)"
       }.joined(separator: " ")
}

Swift 3.0 does not support `var` in function/closure parameter list. For some reason Swift parser didn't catch this as syntax error, I'd suggest you to report a bug on bugs.swift.org.