Category Archives: Swift

Swift Standard Libraries: Sequence and Collection Functions

Posted on October 15, 2014 by idz

In the last post in this series, I took at look at the protocols that Swift uses to define generators, sequences and collections. In this post I am going to present examples of using the Standard Library Functions that operate … Continue reading →

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Swift Standard Library: Generators, Sequences and Collections

Posted on October 13, 2014 by idz

A large part of the Swift Standard Library is concerned with {swift}Generators{/swift}, {swift}Sequences{/swift} and {swift}Collections{/swift} and functions that operate on them, so it’s pretty important to have a good understanding of them. Generators A {swift}Generator{/swift} is anything that conforms to … Continue reading →

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Swift Standard Library: transcode

Posted on October 7, 2014 by idz

Swift Standard Library: transcode The {swift}transcode{/swift} function lets to convert strings from one Unicode encoding to another, for example {swift}UTF16{/swift} to {swift}UTF8{/swift}. The definition you get when you command-click on the function is quite intimidating: /* func transcode< Input : … Continue reading →

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