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Ahmad Sahar
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Ahmad Sahar is a trainer, presenter, and consultant at Tomafuwi Productions, specializing in conducting training courses for macOS and iOS, macOS Support Essentials certification courses, and iOS Development courses. He is a member of the DevCon iOS and MyCocoaHeads online communities in Malaysia and has conducted presentations and talks for both groups. In his spare time, he likes building and programming LEGO Mindstorms robots.
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Exploring closures

A closure, like a function, contains a sequence of instructions and can take arguments and return values. However, closures don’t have names. The sequence of instructions in a closure is surrounded by curly braces ({ }), and the in keyword separates the arguments and return type from the closure body.

Closures can be assigned to a constant or variable, so they’re handy if you need to pass them around inside your program. For instance, let’s say you have an app that downloads a file from the internet, and you need to do something to the file once it has finished downloading. You can put a list of instructions to process the file inside a closure and have your program execute it once the file finishes downloading.

You’ll now write a closure that applies a calculation on each element of an...

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Ahmad Sahar

Ahmad Sahar is a trainer, presenter, and consultant at Tomafuwi Productions, specializing in conducting training courses for macOS and iOS, macOS Support Essentials certification courses, and iOS Development courses. He is a member of the DevCon iOS and MyCocoaHeads online communities in Malaysia and has conducted presentations and talks for both groups. In his spare time, he likes building and programming LEGO Mindstorms robots.
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