Passing an array to a function with variable number of args in Swift

Question

In The Swift Programming Language, it says:

Functions can also take a variable number of arguments, collecting them into an array.

  func sumOf(numbers: Int...) -> Int {
      ...
  }

When I call such a function with a comma-separated list of numbers (`sumOf(1, 2, 3, 4), they are made available as an array inside the function.

Question: what if I already have an array of numbers that I want to pass to this function?

let numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4]
sumOf(numbers)

This fails with a compiler error, “Could not find an overload for '__conversion' that accepts the supplied arguments”. Is there a way to turn an existing array into a list of elements that I can pass to a variadic function?

Answer 1

Splatting is not in the language yet, as confirmed by the devs. Workaround for now is to use an overload or wait if you cannot add overloads.