[Swift-devel] mapping and assignment in one statement.

[Ben Clifford]

At present, declarations and assignments are documented as:

   typename variablename (<mapping> | = initialValue ) ;  

That is, you can declare:

  file f <"foo">;           (1)
or
  file f = p();             (2)

but not:
  file f <"foo"> = p();     (3)

I think given the way the language has evolved recently that we should 
permit 3 - the implementation now should not make that hard at all, and it 
will not break any existing program.

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