I have checked questions sharing the same topic but none address this weird behaviour I am experiencing:
Say I have a simple old school struct:
struct Person {
var name: String
var age: Int
}
And I want to overload the init in an extension like this:
extension Person {
init(name: String) {
self.name = name
self.age = 26
}
}
As you expected, this code would run just fine.
However, If I move the Person struct to a different module (a.k.a different framework) and expose it to my module like this:
public struct Person {
public var name: String
public var age: Int
}
If I now overload the init in an extension locally in my module the compiler produces the following errors:
'self' used before 'self.init' call or assignment to 'self'
'self.init' isn't called on all paths before returning from initializer
The only way I found to avoid this problem is calling the original init inside the overloaded one like this:
extension Person {
init(name: String) {
self.init(name: name, age: 24)
}
}
I personally find this behaviour to be pretty strange.
Am I missing something?
