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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)

Control transfer statements

Control transfer statements are used to transfer control to another part of the code. Swift offers six control transfer statements; these are continue, break, fallthrough, guard, throws, and return. We will look at the return statement in Chapter 6, Functions, and will discuss the throws statement in Chapter 11, Availability and Error Handling. The remaining control transfer statements will be discussed in this section.

The continue statement

The continue statement tells a loop to stop executing the code block and to go to the next iteration of the loop. The following example shows how we can use this statement to print out only the odd numbers in a range:

for i in 1...10 {  
  if i % 2 == 0 { ...