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Swift Cookbook

You're reading from   Swift Cookbook Over 60 proven recipes for developing better iOS applications with Swift 5.3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839211195
Length 500 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Keith Moon Keith Moon
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Keith D. Moon Keith D. Moon
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Chris Barker Chris Barker
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Swift Building Blocks 2. Mastering the Building Blocks FREE CHAPTER 3. Data Wrangling with Swift Control Flow 4. Generics, Operators, and Nested Types 5. Beyond the Standard Library 6. Building iOS Apps with Swift 7. Swift Playgrounds 8. Server-Side Swift 9. Performance and Responsiveness in Swift 10. SwiftUI and Combine Framework 11. Using CoreML and Vision in Swift 12. About Packt 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chaining optional unwrapping

The ability of if statements to conditionally unwrap optionals can be chained together to produce some useful and concise code. The following example is a bit contrived, but it illustrates how we can use a single if statement to unwrap a chain of optional values.

When you play a game of pool, called a frame, the type of the first ball you pot becomes the type you need to pot for the rest of the frame, and your opponent has to pot the opposite type.

Let's define a frame of pool and say that we want to track what type of ball each player will be potting:

class PoolFrame { 
var player1BallType: PoolBallType?
var player2BallType: PoolBallType?
}

We will also create a PoolTable object that has an optional currentFrame property, which will contain information about the current frame if one is in progress:

class PoolTable { 
var currentFrame: PoolFrame?
}

We now have a pool table that has an optional frame and a frame that has an optional...

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