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Swift Functional Programming - Second Edition

By : Dr. Fatih Nayebi
Book Image

Swift Functional Programming - Second Edition

By: Dr. Fatih Nayebi

Overview of this book

Swift is a multi-paradigm programming language enabling you to tackle different problems in various ways. Understanding each paradigm and knowing when and how to utilize and combine them can lead to a better code base. Functional programming (FP) is an important paradigm that empowers us with declarative development and makes applications more suitable for testing, as well as performant and elegant. This book aims to simplify the FP paradigms, making them easily understandable and usable, by showing you how to solve many of your day-to-day development problems using Swift FP. It starts with the basics of FP, and you will go through all the core concepts of Swift and the building blocks of FP. You will also go through important aspects, such as function composition and currying, custom operator definition, monads, functors, applicative functors,memoization, lenses, algebraic data types, type erasure, functional data structures, functional reactive programming (FRP), and protocol-oriented programming(POP). You will then learn to combine those techniques to develop a fully functional iOS application from scratch
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we looked into types in general and explored reference versus value types in detail. We covered topics such as value and reference type constants, mixing value and reference types, and copying. Then we learned the characteristics of value types, key differences between value and reference types, and how we should decide which one to use. We continued by exploring equality, identity, type checking, and casting topics. Even though we explored the topic of value types, we did not explore a related topic-immutability, in this chapter. Chapter 9, Importance of Immutability will cover the importance of immutability. Furthermore, for in depth coverage of these concepts it is recommended to watch the following videos: WWDC 2015--Building Better Apps with Value Types in Swift (https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2015/414/), and WWDC 2016--Protocol and Value Oriented Programming in UIKit Apps (https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/419/).

In the following...