I can't recall whether functions and variables can have the same name (though I
think not), but at the least that error message seems to miss the point.
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> On May 12, 2016, at 14:07, Evan Maloney via swift-users
> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
>
> Adopting the newer Swift style of preferring first parameter labels, I wrote
> a function:
>
> func sale(options options: DeepLinkOptions)
> throws
> -> Sale
> {
> // ...implementation...
> }
>
> I then tried calling it elsewhere, and setting the result to a variable named
> 'sale', which is coincidentally the same name as the function above:
>
> let sale = try sale(options: options)
>
> This line won't compile, failing with the following error and a caret
> pointing at the second use of 'sale':
>
> variable used within its own initial value
>
> In the past, I would've named the function above according to Objective-C
> conventions, and it might've ended up with a name like 'saleWithOptions';
> there'd be no clash. However, with the more terse Swift 3.0 style, we'll
> probably end up with more situations like mine.
>
> Is this (should this be?) considered a bug or compiler limitation? Should I
> file a JIRA? There doesn't seem to be anything for this on bugs.swift.org yet.
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