A Swift Tour, Control Flow error

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Created Jul ’23

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I am going through the Swift Tour and found an error in the second code snippet under Control Flow.

Current

var teamScore = 11
let scoreDecoration = if teamScore > 10 {
    "🎉"
} else {
    ""
}

Error: Consecutive statements on a line must be separated by ';'

Proposed

var teamScore = 11
let scoreDecoration = teamScore > 10 ? "🎉" : ""

Answered by Claude31 in 760236022

Xcode 14.3. 1 uses Swift 5.8.1, not 5.9.

so this syntax is not yet supported and hence logically causing the error you get.

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Answer 1

Jul ’23

Which version of Xcode do you use ?

But in this case, your proposal is just simpler to read and shorter.

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Answer 2

Jul ’23

I am using Xcode 14.3.1

Are you able to reproduce the error using the example in the Control Flow documentation?

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Answer 3

Jul ’23

Accepted Answer

Xcode 14.3. 1 uses Swift 5.8.1, not 5.9.

so this syntax is not yet supported and hence logically causing the error you get.

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Answer 4

Jul ’23

Just for the fun of it, with older Swift, you can use a closure to get nearly the same:

var teamScore = 11
let scoreDecoration = { if teamScore > 10 {
    return "🎉"
} else {
    return ""
}
}()

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Answer 5

Jul ’23

Nice! Thanks Claude.

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