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Mastering Swift 5

You're reading from   Mastering Swift 5 Deep dive into the latest edition of the Swift programming language

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789139860
Length 370 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Jon Hoffman Jon Hoffman
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Preface 1. Taking the First Steps with Swift FREE CHAPTER 2. Learning about Variables, Constants, Strings, and Operators 3. Optional Types 4. Using Swift Collections 5. Control Flow 6. Functions 7. Classes, Structures, and Protocols 8. Using Protocols and Protocol Extensions 9. Protocol Oriented Design 10. Generics 11. Availability and Error Handling 12. Custom Subscripting 13. Working with Closures 14. Concurrency and Parallelism in Swift 15. Custom Types 16. Memory Management 17. Swift Formatting and Style Guider 18. Adopting Design Patterns in Swift 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Arrays

Arrays are a very common component of modern programming languages and can be found in virtually all modern programming languages. In Swift, an array is an ordered list of objects of the same type.

When an array is created, we must declare the type of data that can be stored in it by explicit type declaration or through type inference. Typically, we only explicitly declare the data type of an array when we are creating an empty array. If we initialize an array with data, the compiler uses type inference to infer the data type for the array.

Each object in an array is called an element. Each of these elements is stored in a set order and can be accessed by searching for its location (index) in the array.

Creating and initializing arrays

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