'self' used before all stored properties are initialized

Question

I\'m working through a learn-swift playground and upgrading it to Swift 2.0 as I learn the language. The following code (which likely worked with prior versions of Swift) n

Answer 1

Just do:

private(set) var capitalCity: City!

which gives you the read-only public interface you want.

I understand that you find var capitalCity: City! contrived. I'd say that the selected answer is truly contrived; it adds lines of code that have no purpose other than resolving a language-related issue. Lines like that are meaningless and meaning is what matters most in code.