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Mastering Swift 5 - Fifth Edition

By : Jon Hoffman
Book Image

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 variadic parameters

A variadic parameter is one that accepts zero or more values of a specified type. Within the function's definition, we define a variadic parameter by appending three periods (...) to the parameter's type name. The values of a variadic parameter are made available to the function as an array of the specified type. The following example shows how we would use a variadic parameter with a function:

func sayHello(greeting: String, names: String...) {  
  for name in names { 
    print("\(greeting) \(name)") 
  } 
} 

In the preceding example, the sayHello() function takes two parameters. The first parameter is of the String type, which is the greeting to use. The second parameter is a variadic parameter of the String type, which is the names to send the greeting to. Within the function, a variadic parameter is an array that contains the...