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Mastering Swift 3 - Linux

You're reading from   Mastering Swift 3 - Linux Learn to build fast and robust applications on the Linux platform with Swift

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786461414
Length 380 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mastering Swift 3 - Linux
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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 Error Handling 9. Custom Subscripting 10. Using Optional Types 11. Working with Generics 12. Working with Closures 13. Using C Libraries with Swift 14. Concurrency and Parallelism in Swift 15. Swifts Core Libraries 16. Swift on Single Board Computers 17. Swift Formatting and Style Guide 18. Adopting Design Patterns in Swift

Control flow


Control flow, also known as flow of control, refers to the order in which statements, instructions, or functions are executed within an application. Swift supports all of the familiar control flow statements that are in C-like languages. These include loops (including for and while), conditional statements (including if and switch) and the transfer of the control statements (including break and continue). It is worthwhile to note that Swift 3 does not include the traditional C for loop; rather than the traditional do…while loop Swift has the repeat…while loop.

In addition to the standard C control flow statements, Swift has also added additional statements, such as the for...in loop, and enhanced some of the existing statements, such as the switch statement.

Let's begin by looking at conditional statements in Swift.

Conditional statements

A conditional statement will check a condition and execute a block of code only if the condition is true. Swift provides both the if and if.....

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