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Mastering Swift

By : Jon Hoffman
Book Image

Mastering Swift

By: Jon Hoffman

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Mastering Swift
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 13. Swift Formatting and Style Guide

Throughout my development experience, every time I learned a new programming language, there was usually some mention on how code for that language should be written and formatted. Early in my development career (which was a long time ago), these recommendations were very basic formatting recommendations, such as how to indent your code, or just having one statement per line. It really wasn't until the last 10 to 12 years that I started seeing complex and detailed formatting and style guides for different programming languages. Today, it will be hard pressed to find a development shop with more than two or three developers who did not have style/formatting guides for each language that they use. Even companies that do not create their own style guides generally refer back to some standard guide published by other companies, such as Google, Oracle, or Microsoft. These style guides help teams to write consistent and easy-to-maintain code.