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Mastering Swift 5

Mastering Swift 5 - Fifth Edition

By : Jon Hoffman
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Mastering Swift 5

Mastering Swift 5

3.8 (29)
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.
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Returning multiple values from a function

There are a couple of ways to return multiple values from a Swift function. One of the most common ways is to put the values into a collection type (an array or dictionary) and then return the collection. The following example shows how to return a collection type from a Swift function:

func getNames() -> [String] { 
  var retArray = ["Jon", "Kim", "Kailey", "Kara"]  
  return retArray 
} 
 
var names = getNames() 

In the preceding example, we declared the getNames() function with no parameters and a return type of [String]. The return type of [String] specifies the return type to be an array of string types.

In the preceding example, our array could only return string types. If we needed to return numbers with our strings, we could return an array of the Any type and then use typecasting to specify...

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