Jun 17, 2015 · Swift needs a convention for saying what the name of a function is, including not only the function name itself (before the parentheses) but also the external names of the parameters.

Jun 3, 2019 · Swift 5.1 does not appear to have some as a keyword, and I don't see what else the word some could be doing there, since it goes where the type usually goes. Is there a new, unannounced …

May 21, 2015 · The question of what purpose in serves has been well-answered by other users here; in summary: in is a keyword defined in the Swift closure syntax as a separator between the function …

Nov 10, 2014 · I am new to Swift and I'm wondering what self is used for and why. I have seen it in classes and structures but I really don't find them essential nor necessary to even mention them in …

415 In Swift 2 and onwards it's possible to add default implementations of a protocol. This creates a new way of optional methods in protocols.

Feb 3, 2022 · 77 I'm bridging the sync/async worlds in Swift and doing incremental adoption of async/await. I'm trying to invoke an async function that returns a value from a non async function. I …

Swift has its own Date type. No need to use NSDate. Creating a Date and Time in Swift In Swift, dates and times are stored in a 64-bit floating point number measuring the number of seconds since the …

The Swift Docs on Control Flow explain the idea behind that: Using a guard statement for requirements improves the readability of your code, compared to doing the same check with an if statement.

Apr 17, 2016 · With the release of Swift 3.0 being available for Mac OS and Windows, does this mean you can compile and run Swift code on Windows? If so what compiler do you use for Windows?

With Swift 5, Foundation offers many ways to get the hour value from a Date object. According to your needs, you may choose one of the four following Playground code snippets.