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Mastering Swift 5.3

Mastering Swift 5.3

By : Jon Hoffman
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Mastering Swift 5.3

Mastering Swift 5.3

3.7 (15)
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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Taking the First Steps with Swift
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Learning about Variables, Constants, Strings, and Operators
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Using Swift Collections
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Protocol-Oriented Design
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Error Handling and Availability
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Advanced and Custom Operators
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Memory Management
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Swift Formatting and Style Guide
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Polymorphism with protocols

What we saw in the previous examples is a form of polymorphism. The word polymorphism comes from the Greek roots poly, meaning many, and morphe, meaning form. In programming languages, polymorphism is a single interface to multiple types (many forms). In the previous example, the single interface was the PersonProtocol protocol and the multiple types were any type that conforms to that protocol.

Polymorphism gives us the ability to interact with multiple types in a uniform manner. To illustrate this, we can extend the previous example where we created an array of the PersonProtocol types and looped through the array. We can then access each item in the array using the properties and methods defined in the PersonProtocol protocol, regardless of the actual type. Let's see an example of this:

for person in people { 
    print("\(person.firstName)\(person.lastName):\(person.profession)")
}

When we define the type of a variable, constant...

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