What’s wrong here: Instance member cannot be used on type [duplicate]

The problem here is that you are using self before the class is fully initialised. You can either have a getter which will be called every time you access the variable or compute it lazily.

Here is some code:

class TableViewController: UITableViewController {
    let mydate = NSDate()
    var items : [(Int,Int,Int,String,NSDate)] {
        get {
            return [
                (1, 9, 7, "A", mydate),
                (2, 9, 7, "B", mydate),
                (3, 9, 7, "C", mydate),
                (4, 9, 7, "D", mydate)
            ]

        }
    }
}

Lazy computation:

class TableViewController: UITableViewController {
    let mydate = NSDate()
    lazy var items : [(Int,Int,Int,String,NSDate)] =  {

            return [
                (1, 9, 7, "A", self.mydate),
                (2, 9, 7, "B", self.mydate),
                (3, 9, 7, "C", self.mydate),
                (4, 9, 7, "D", self.mydate)
            ]


    }()
}