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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

Generics manifesto


Even though Swift 3 provides great Generics features, it is not complete. According to the Generics Manifesto, there are a number of Generics features the standard library requires to fully realize its vision, including "recursive protocol constraints, and the ability to make a constrained extension conform to a new protocol" (that is, an array of Equatable elements is Equatable). Swift 3.0 should provide those Generics features needed by the standard library, because they affect the standard library's application binary interface (ABI).

An ABI is the interface between two program modules, at the level of machine code. An ABI determines how functions are called and in which binary format information should be passed from one program component to the next.

The Generics Manifesto, which is accessible via https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/GenericsManifesto.md, and the Swift ABI Stability Manifesto, which is accessible via https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master...