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Mastering Swift 5 - Fifth Edition

By : Jon Hoffman
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Mastering Swift 5 - Fifth Edition

By: Jon Hoffman

Overview of this book

Over the years, the Mastering Swift book has established itself amongst developers as a popular choice as an in-depth and practical guide to the Swift programming language. The latest edition is fully updated and revised to cover the new version: Swift 5. Inside this book, you'll find the key features of Swift 5 easily explained with complete sets of examples. From the basics of the language to popular features such as concurrency, generics, and memory management, this definitive guide will help you develop your expertise and mastery of the Swift language. Mastering Swift 5, Fifth Edition will give you an in-depth knowledge of some of the most sophisticated elements in Swift development, including protocol extensions, error handling, and closures. It will guide you on how to use and apply them in your own projects. Later, you'll see how to leverage the power of protocol-oriented programming to write flexible and easier-to-manage code. You will also see how to add the copy-on-write feature to your custom value types and how to avoid memory management issues caused by strong reference cycles.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Using case and where statements with conditional statements

As we saw in the last section, the case and where statements within a switch statement can be very powerful. Using case and where statements within our conditional statements can also make our code much smaller and easier to read. Conditional statements, such as if, for, and while, can also make use of the where and case keywords. Let's take a look at some examples, starting off with using the where statement to filter the results in a for-in loop.

Filtering with the where statement

In this example, we will take an array of integers and print out only multiples of 3. However, before we look at how to filter the results with the where statement, let's take...