I don’t understand what the problem is
> On 5 Jan 2016, at 12:39, James Campbell via swift-evolution
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> See this code:
> var distanceCache: [Int: Int] = Dictionary<Int, Int>()
>
> It is very long and tedious to write especially if what I am storing changes.
>
> I propose we be allowed to do the following:
> var distanceCache: [Int: Int] = []
You can do
var distanceCache: [Int: Int] = [:]
Also
var distanceCache2 = [Int: Int]()
> Perhaps this dictionary syntax is just confusing and it was a bad idea to
> make it the same as an array. Most languages use "{" so why did swift choose
> to share "[" with arrays and dictionaries.
It’s not the same, you need the colons inside. I imagine that braces were
discarded on the grounds that it would confuse the compiler with respect to
closures, for example
var myClosure = {} // is a variable of type () -> ()
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