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Richard Lu
Richard Lu
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Posted by Richard Lu
Richard Lu
20,185 Points

Unable to infer complex closure return type; add explicit type to disambiguate.

So the following code is equivalent and works without a problem

var someProperty = 1

//====================

var anotherProperty = { 
   return 1 
}()

Normally, there should be an explicit type - for example:

struct SomeStruct { }

var someStruct = {  // this gives an error
   let someStruct = SomeStruct()
   return someStruct
}()

The snippet of code above gives the error Unable to infer complex closure return type; add explicit type to disambiguate. To fix the issue, I added an explicit type:

struct SomeStruct { }

var someStruct: SomeStruct = {  // error goes away
   let someStruct = SomeStruct()
   return someStruct
}()

Why is this the case? Why does SomeStruct not behave the same as an Int (also a struct)?