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Swift 3 New Features

You're reading from   Swift 3 New Features Get up to date with what`s new in Swift 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786469632
Length 142 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Keith Elliott Keith Elliott
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Preface 1. What Were They Thinking? FREE CHAPTER 2. Discovering New Territories – Linux at Last! 3. Migrating to Swift 3 to Be More Swifty 4. Changes to Swifts Core Will Have You Asking for More 5. Function and Operator Changes – New Ways to Get Things Done 6. Extra, Extra Collection and Closure Changes That Rock! 7. Hold onto Your Chair; Advanced Type Changes Are Here! 8. Oh Goodness! Look Whats New in the Foundation Framework 9. Improving Your Code with Xcode Server and LLDB Debugging 10. Exploring Swift on the Server

Function declaration changes


Swift provides a very flexible set of rules for defining functions. You can create functions with no parameters, with parameters, or even with argument labels. Every Swift function has a type, parameters (or no parameters), and a return type. For Swift 3, the language has been tweaked to make things more consistent and less complex.

Consistent parameter labeling [SE-0046]

Parameter labels are used for naming each argument in the function definition. In Swift 2.2 and earlier, function parameters could be defined with a local and an external label. The local argument label is required as this label is used to refer to the parameter in the body of the function. The external argument label, when provided, was used in the actual function call. You can think of the external label as your shiny descriptive name at the call site to provide good insight into what the argument represents. The internal label is, as the name implies, the name your function uses in the implementation...

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