Swift Pocket Reference

Copyright
 Table of Contents
 Swift Pocket Reference
 Introduction
 Conventions Used in This Book
 Using Code Examples
 Safari® Books Online
 How to Contact Us
 Acknowledgments
 Getting Started with Swift 2
 The Swift REPL
 Swift as a Scripting Language
 Swift Playgrounds
 A Taste of Swift
 Basic Language Features
 Comments
 Semicolons
 Whitespace
 Naming Conventions
 Importing Code from Other Modules
 Types
 Specific Integer Types
 Numeric Literals
 Character and String Literals
 Type Aliases
 Nested Types
 Other Types
 Variables and Constants
 Computed Variables
 Variable Observers
 Tuples. Tuple Variables and ConstantsExtracting Tuple Components
 Naming Tuple Components
 Using Type Aliases with Tuples
 Tuples as Return Types
 Operators
 No Implicit Type Conversion
 Arithmetic Operators
 Bitwise Operators
 Assignment Operators
 Comparison Operators
 Logical Operators
 Overflow Operators
 Type Casting Operators
 Range Operators
 Ternary Conditional Operator
 Operator Precedence
 Strings and Characters
 String Properties
 Comparing Strings
 Escaped Characters in Strings
 String Interpolation
 Converting Strings to Numeric Types
 Character-Level Access in Strings. String Inherited FunctionalityArrays
 Accessing Array Elements
 Array Properties
 Modifying a Mutable Array
 Iterating Over Arrays
 Array Inherited Functionality
 Slices
 Dictionaries
 Accessing Dictionary Elements
 Dictionary Properties
 Modifying a Mutable Dictionary
 Iterating Over Dictionaries
 Dictionary Inherited Functionality
 Sets
 Accessing Set Items and Properties
 Modifying a Mutable Set
 Iterating Over Sets 
 Set Operations
 Set Inherited Functionality
 Option Sets
 Functions
 Parameter Types
 Returning Optional Values
 Returning Multiple Values by using Tuples. Local and External Parameter NamesDefault Parameter Values
 Variadic Parameters
 Function Types
 Closures
 Automatic Argument Names
 Trailing Closures
 Capturing Values
 Capturing Values by Reference
 Optionals
 Unwrapping Optionals
 Implicitly Unwrapped Optionals
 Optional Binding
 Optional Chaining
 Program Flow
 Loops
 Conditional Execution
 Error Handling
 Classes
 Defining a Base Class
 Instances
 Properties
 Methods
 Subscripts
 Member Protection
 Inheritance: Deriving One Class from Another
 Overriding Superclass Entities
 Preventing Overrides and Subclassing
 Initialization. Initialization and InheritanceDeinitialization
 Structures
 Properties in Structures
 Methods in Structures
 Type Methods for Structures
 Initializers in Structures
 Enumerations
 Raw Member Values
 Associated Values
 Methods in Enumerations
 Type Methods for Enumerations
 Recursive Enumerations
 Failable Initializers in Enumerations
 Access Control
 Specifying Access Control Levels
 Default Access Control Levels
 Extensions
 Computed Property Extensions
 Initializer Extensions
 Method Extensions
 Subscript Extensions
 Checking and Casting Types
 Any and AnyObject
 Checking Types.