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Mastering Swift 3

You're reading from   Mastering Swift 3 Build incredible apps for iOS and OS X

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466129
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jon Hoffman Jon Hoffman
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Taking the First Steps with Swift FREE CHAPTER 2. Learning About Variables, Constants, Strings, and Operators 3. Using Swift Collections and the Tuple Type 4. Control Flow and Functions 5. Classes and Structures 6. Using Protocols and Protocol Extensions 7. Protocol-Oriented Design 8. Writing Safer Code with Availability and Error Handling 9. Custom Subscripting 10. Using Optional Types 11. Working with Generics 12. Working with Closures 13. Using Mix and Match 14. Concurrency and Parallelism in Swift 15. Swift Formatting and Style Guide 16. Swifts Core Libraries 17. Adopting Design Patterns in Swift

Multidimensional subscripts


While the most common subscripts are the ones that take a single parameter, subscripts are not limited to single parameters. They can take any number of input parameters, and these parameters can be of any type.

Let's see how we could use a multidimensional subscript to implement a Tic-Tac-Toe board. A Tic-Tac-Toe board looks similar to this:

The board can be represented by a two-dimensional array where each dimension has three elements. Each player will then take a turn placing his/her pieces (typically x or o) onto the board until one player has three pieces in a row or the board is full.

Let's see how we could implement a Tic-Tac-Toe board using a multidimensional array and multidimensional subscripts:

struct TicTacToe { 
  var board = [["","",""],["","",""],["","",""]] 
  subscript(x: Int, y: Int) -> String { 
    get { 
      return board[x][y] 
    } 
    set { 
      board[x][y] = newValue 
    } 
  } 
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