Languages such as Java and C# generally refer to the error-handling process as exception handling. Within the Swift documentation, Apple refers to this process as error handling. While on the outside, Java and C# exception handling may look somewhat similar to Swift's error handling, there are some significant differences that those familiar with exception handling in other languages will notice throughout this chapter.
Native error handling
Representing errors
Before we can really understand how error handling works in Swift, we must see how we can represent an error. In Swift, errors are represented by values of types that conform to the Error protocol. Swift's enumerations are very well-suited to modeling error...
