The problem for me is that is so counter intuitive I didn't even know you could do that.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Jeremy Pereira < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 () -> () > > > > > > -- > > Wizard > > [email protected] > > +44 7523 279 698 > > _______________________________________________ > > swift-evolution mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > > -- Wizard [email protected] +44 7523 279 698
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