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Swift 3 New Features

You're reading from  Swift 3 New Features

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786469632
Pages 142 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Keith Elliott Keith Elliott
Profile icon Keith Elliott

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Swift 3 New Features
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. What Were They Thinking? 2. Discovering New Territories – Linux at Last! 3. Migrating to Swift 3 to Be More Swifty 4. Changes to Swifts Core Will Have You Asking for More 5. Function and Operator Changes – New Ways to Get Things Done 6. Extra, Extra Collection and Closure Changes That Rock! 7. Hold onto Your Chair; Advanced Type Changes Are Here! 8. Oh Goodness! Look Whats New in the Foundation Framework 9. Improving Your Code with Xcode Server and LLDB Debugging 10. Exploring Swift on the Server

The grand renaming


Let's start with the proposals for the Swift API Design Guidelines. The Grand Renaming proposals represent, collectively, a very large undertaking and are covered by proposals SE-0005, SE-0006, SE-0086, and SE-0088. Implementing the API guidelines represents the largest change to the language for Swift 3. I couldn't possibly cover every API change resulting in the Grand Renaming proposals in this short book. Thankfully, you don't have to understand every line that changed in the libraries to be productive with Swift 3. You have two fantastic resources that will pay dividends with very little effort on your part. The first resource is the Swift migration tool which converts existing Swift projects to the latest syntax. When you use the Swift migrator, you can convert your Swift 2.2 projects to Swift 3 and receive most of the changes for free. The second extremely valuable resource is the Swift API Guidelines, which were developed to help make your code more Swifty. The...

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