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[SR-15669] Diagnostics for reinitialization of ‘let’ property due to initilizer delegation is misleading #57948

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WowbaggersLiquidLunch opened this issue Dec 30, 2021 · 0 comments
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bug A deviation from expected or documented behavior. Also: expected but undesirable behavior. compiler The Swift compiler in itself diagnostics QoI Bug: Diagnostics Quality of Implementation

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Previous ID SR-15669
Radar None
Original Reporter @WowbaggersLiquidLunch
Type Bug
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macOS 12.2 Beta (21D5025f)
2021-12-23 trunk snapshot

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Component/s Compiler
Labels Bug, DiagnosticsQoI
Assignee None
Priority Medium

md5: cb0ffaf2974505a5d24b0f2262b94fe7

relates to:

  • SR-15670 'let' property reinitialization checking is flow-insensitive

Issue Description:

This is the current behaviour:

struct S {
    let x: Int
}

extension S {
    init(a: Int) {
        x = a // error: 'let' property ‘x’ may not be initialized directly; use "self.init(...)" or "self = ..." instead
        self.init(x: a)
    }
    
    init(b: Int) {
        self.init(x: b)
        x = b // error: 'let' property ‘x’ may not be initialized directly; use "self.init(...)" or "self = ..." instead
    }
}

This error message does not provide context, and misleads people to think that let properties may not be initialized directly with or without delegation.

I think the error message should be something like “immutable value 'self.x' may only be initialized once”, similar to the message given to direct reinitialization of let properties:

extension S {
    init(c: Int) {
        x = c
        x = c // error: immutable value 'self.x' may only be initialized once
              // fix-it: change 'let' to 'var' to make it mutable
    }
}

Or, even better if it marks where the property was/will be initialized via delegation:

extension S {
    init(d: Int) {
        x = d // error: immutable value 'self.x' may only be initialized once
        self.init(x: d) // info: immutable value 'self.x' will be reinitialized here
    }
    
    init(e: Int) {
        self.init(x: e) // info: immutable value 'self.x' has been initialized here
        x = e // error: immutable value 'self.x' may only be initialized once
    }
}
@swift-ci swift-ci transferred this issue from apple/swift-issues Apr 25, 2022
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