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Swift 5 New Features [Video]

By : Dee Aliyu Odumosu
Book Image

Swift 5 New Features [Video]

By: Dee Aliyu Odumosu

Overview of this book

<p>If you are already a Swift programmer, this course will get you up-to-date with all the new features in Swift 5 to improve your productivity and efficiency. </p><p>You will become fully acquainted with the new String ergonomics and improvements to the current Swift Standard Library, and discover some new examples of syntactical sugar that will let you write shorter but more powerful code. You will learn about the new result type for handling errors, thereby making your code more robust. Finally, you will learn how to migrate to Swift 5 as easily as possible. </p><p>By the end of the course, you will have gained up-to-date insights into all of Swift 5's features and will be able to code efficiently and rapidly within your projects. </p><p>The code bundle is available at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/-Swift-5-New-Features</p>
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 5
Package Manager and Other Changes
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Section 2
Compilation Condition Changes
When checking Swift version or the compiler version on Swift 4.2, we had to check if the version is greater or equal to a specific value, there was no support for the less than unary operator. This was resulting in less than ideal code because developers had to use the ! NOT operator to negate boolean condition, just to get the less than equivalent. This resulted in codes that are not too easy to read and understand immediately.