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Swift Programming Concepts and how they relate to memory management and storage

Hi there, I have a hardware background, and would like to understand how Swift programming relates to storage behaviour. I'm curious about and would love to know the answers to the following:

In the following statement: let musicLibrary = MusicLibrary().library

When the constant value (musicLibrary) is given a value of a struct (MusicLibrary(), and a dictionary inside it (library)), is the entire dictionary stored into the musicLibrary constant before the struct is run (i.e. when the program compiles), or when the actual line has been reached?

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Chris Adamson
Chris Adamson
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Chris Adamson
Chris Adamson
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It will do the assignment when the line has been reached, i.e. at runtime.

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Thank you Chris!