Different ways to initialize a dictionary in Swift?

Question

As far as I know, there are 4 ways to declare a dictionary in Swift:

var dict1: Dictionary = [:]
var dict2 = Dictionary

        

Answer 1

All you're doing is noticing that you can:

• Use explicit variable typing, or let Swift infer the type of the variable based on the value assigned to it.

• Use the formal specified generic struct notation Dictionary, or use the built-in "syntactic sugar" for describing a dictionary type [String:Double].

Two times two is four.

And then there are in fact some possibilities you've omitted; for example, you could say

var dict5 : [String:Double] = [String:Double]()

And of course in real life you are liable to do none of these things, but just assign an actual dictionary to your variable:

var dict6 = ["howdy":1.0]