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Mastering Swift 5.3 - Sixth Edition

By : Jon Hoffman
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Mastering Swift 5.3 - Sixth Edition

By: Jon Hoffman

Overview of this book

Over the years, Mastering Swift has proven itself among developers as a popular choice for an in-depth and practical guide to the Swift programming language. This sixth edition comes with the latest features, an overall revision to align with Swift 5.3, and two new chapters on building swift from source and advanced operators. From the basics of the language to popular features such as concurrency, generics, and memory management, this in-depth guide will help you develop your expertise and mastery of the language. As you progress, you will gain practical insights into some of the most sophisticated elements in Swift development, including protocol extensions, error handling, and closures. The book will also show you how to use and apply them in your own projects. In later chapters, you will understand how to use the power of protocol-oriented programming to write flexible and easier-to-manage code in Swift. Finally, you will learn how to add the copy-on-write feature to your custom value types, along with understanding how to avoid memory management issues caused by strong reference cycles. By the end of this Swift book, you will have mastered the Swift 5.3 language and developed the skills you need to effectively use its features to build robust applications.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Index

Index

A

access controls 151, 152

access levels

fileprivate 152

internal 152

open 151

private 152

public 151

addOperation() method, of operation queue

using 301, 302

API Design Guidelines

about 341

commented-out code, removing 349

comments, using 344, 345

constants and variables 346

defining 341

indenting 344

naming rules 342

optional types 346

parentheses, avoiding for conditional statements 342

reference link 341

self keyword, using 345

semicolons, avoiding 341

shorthand declaration, using for collection 348

switch statement, using 349

Application Binary Interface (ABI) 3

argument labels

omitting 131

arithmetic operator 56

array 72

appending 78

creating 73, 74

initializing 73, 74

isEmpty property, using 77

iterating 86, 87

merging 79

modifying 81

non-contiguous elements, retrieving 260

shuffling 77

subarray, retrieving 80...