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Swift Protocol-Oriented Programming - Fourth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2019
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781789349023
Pages 224 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Jon Hoffman Jon Hoffman
Profile icon Jon Hoffman

Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface 1. Starting with the Protocol 2. Our Type Choices 3. Extensions 4. Generics 5. Memory Management 6. Object-Oriented Programming 7. Protocol-Oriented Programming 8. Adopting Design Patterns in Swift 9. Case Studies 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Generics in the Swift standard library

Generics are used extensively within the Swift standard library and they allow the Swift collection types to store instances of any type. To see this, let's go to http:// swiftdoc.org/ and look at the Array type. If you click on the Array link from the main page, you will see the documentation on the array type. The documentation looks like this:

At the top of the page, we see that the array type is defined as struct Array<Element>. This tells us that the array type is implemented as a generic value type using a structure. If we now look at the set, we will see that it is also implemented as a generic structure.

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