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Chris Lattner committed a048b078e37
Implement: <rdar://problem/16181314> don't require immediate initialization of 'let' values
... now that we have an exquisitely shaved yak.
This provides a simple and uniform model for "let" constants: they are always either
immediately initialized in their declaration, or they are initialized dynamically
exactly once before any use.
This is a simple generalization of our current model for initializers, but enables
the use of let constants in more cases in local context, e.g. patterns like this:
let x : SomeThing
if condition {
x = foo()
} else {
x = bar()
}
use(x)
Previously this would have to be declared a "var" for no good reason: the value is
only ever initialized, never actually mutated.
The implementation of this is reasonably straight-forward now that the infrastructure
is in place: Sema treats 'let' constants as "settable" if they lack an initializer
(either in the declaration or in a non-PBD binding). This exposes them as an lvalue
at the AST level. SILGen then lowers these things to an alloc_stack, and DI enforces
the "initialization only" requirement that it already enforces for uninitialized 'let'
properties in structs/classes.
Swift SVN r23916