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Mastering Swift 5 - Fifth Edition

By : Jon Hoffman
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Mastering Swift 5 - Fifth Edition

By: Jon Hoffman

Overview of this book

Over the years, the Mastering Swift book has established itself amongst developers as a popular choice as an in-depth and practical guide to the Swift programming language. The latest edition is fully updated and revised to cover the new version: Swift 5. Inside this book, you'll find the key features of Swift 5 easily explained with complete sets of examples. From the basics of the language to popular features such as concurrency, generics, and memory management, this definitive guide will help you develop your expertise and mastery of the Swift language. Mastering Swift 5, Fifth Edition will give you an in-depth knowledge of some of the most sophisticated elements in Swift development, including protocol extensions, error handling, and closures. It will guide you on how to use and apply them in your own projects. Later, you'll see how to leverage the power of protocol-oriented programming to write flexible and easier-to-manage code. You will also see how to add the copy-on-write feature to your custom value types and how to avoid memory management issues caused by strong reference cycles.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Numeric types

Swift contains many of the standard numeric types that are suitable for storing various integer and floating-point values. Let's start off by looking at the integer type.

Integer types

An integer is a whole number and can be either signed (positive, negative, or zero) or unsigned (positive or zero). Swift provides several integer types of different sizes. The following chart shows the value ranges for the different integer types on a 64-bit system:

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Type

Minimum

Maximum

Int8

-128

127

Int16

-32,768

32,767

Int32

-2,147,483,648

2,147,483,647

Int64

- 9,223,372,036,854,775,808

9,223,372,036,854,775,807

Int

- 9,223,372,036,854,775,808

9,223,372,036,854,775,807