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Mastering Swift 3 - Linux

By : Jon Hoffman
Book Image

Mastering Swift 3 - Linux

By: Jon Hoffman

Overview of this book

Swift is a modern, fast, and safe programming language created by Apple. Writing Swift is interactive and fun, the syntax is concise yet expressive, and the code runs lightning-fast. Swift’s move to open source has been embraced with open arms and has seen increased adoption in the Linux platform. Our book will introduce you to the Swift language, further delving into all the key concepts you need to create applications for desktop, server, and embedded Linux platforms. We will teach you the best practices to design an application with Swift 3 via design patterns and Protocol-Oriented Programming. Further on, you will learn how to catch and respond to errors within your application. When you have gained a strong knowledge of using Swift in Linux, we’ll show you how to build IoT and robotic projects using Swift on single board computers. By the end of the book, you will have a solid understanding of the Swift Language with Linux and will be able to create your own applications with ease.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Mastering Swift 3 - Linux
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
2
Learning About Variables, Constants, Strings, and Operators

Operators


An operator is a symbol or combination of symbols that we can use to check, change, or combine values. We have used operators in most of the examples so far in this book; however, we did not specifically call them operators. In this section, we will show how to use most of the basic operators that Swift supports.

Swift supports most standard C operators and also improves them to eliminate several common coding errors. For example, the assignment operator does not return a value, which prevents it from being used where we meant to use the equality operator (==).

Let's look at the operators in Swift.

The assignment operator

The assignment operator initializes or updates a variable.

Prototype:

varA = varB 

Example:

let x = 1 
var y = "Hello" 
a = b 

Comparison operators

The comparison operator returns the true Boolean if the statement is true or the Boolean false if the statement is not true.

Prototypes:

Equality:  varA == varB 
Not equal:  varA != varB 
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