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Mastering Swift 2

By : Jon Hoffman
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Mastering Swift 2

By: Jon Hoffman

Overview of this book

<p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">At their Worldwide Developer’s conference (WWDC) in 2015, Apple announced Swift 2, a major update to the innovative programming language they first unveiled to the world the year before. Swift 2 features exciting enhancements to the original iteration of Swift, acting, as Apple put it themselves as “a successor to the C and Objective-C languages.” – This book demonstrates how to get the most from these new features, and gives you the skills and knowledge you need to develop dynamic iOS and OS X applications.<br /> </span></p> <p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">Learn how to harness the newest features of Swift 2 todevelop advanced applications on a wide range of platforms with this cutting-edge development guide. Exploring and demonstrating how to tackle advanced topics such as Objective-C interoperability, ARC, closures, and concurrency, you’ll develop your Swift expertise and become even more fluent in this vital and innovative language. With examples that demonstrate how to put the concepts into practice, and design patterns and best practices, you’ll be writing better iOS and OSX applications in with a new level of sophistication and control.</span></p>
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Mastering Swift 2
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Taking the First Steps with Swift
2
Learning about Variables, Constants, Strings, and Operators
Index

Subscripts with ranges


Similar to how we use range operators with arrays, we can also let our custom subscripts use the range operator. Let's expand the MathTable structure that we created earlier to include a second subscript that will take a range operator and see how it works:

struct MathTable {
  var num: Int
  subscript(index: Int) -> Int {
    return num * index
  }
  subscript(aRange: Range<Int>) -> [Int] {
    var retArray: [Int] = []
    for i in aRange {
      retArray.append(self[i])
    }
      return retArray

  }
}

The new subscript in our example takes a range as the value for the subscript and then returns an array of integers. Within the subscript, we generate an array, which will be returned to the calling code by using the other subscript method that we previously created to multiply each value of the range by the num property.

The following example shows how to use this new subscript:

var table = MathTable(num: 5)
print(table[2...5])

If we run the example, we will...