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| -rw-r--r-- | swift.html.markdown | 16 |
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diff --git a/swift.html.markdown b/swift.html.markdown index 75535e43..f451288d 100644 --- a/swift.html.markdown +++ b/swift.html.markdown @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ contributors: - ["Christopher Bess", "http://github.com/cbess"] - ["Joey Huang", "http://github.com/kamidox"] - ["Anthony Nguyen", "http://github.com/anthonyn60"] + - ["Clayton Walker", "https://github.com/cwalk"] filename: learnswift.swift --- @@ -57,8 +58,9 @@ let piText = "Pi = \(π), Pi 2 = \(π * 2)" // String interpolation print("Build value: \(buildValue)") // Build value: 7 /* - Optionals are a Swift language feature that allows you to store a `Some` or - `None` value. + Optionals are a Swift language feature that either contains a value, + or contains nil (no value) to indicate that a value is missing. + A question mark (?) after the type marks the value as optional. Because Swift requires every property to have a value, even nil must be explicitly stored as an Optional value. @@ -79,6 +81,12 @@ if someOptionalString != nil { } someOptionalString = nil +/* + Trying to use ! to access a non-existent optional value triggers a runtime + error. Always make sure that an optional contains a non-nil value before + using ! to force-unwrap its value. +*/ + // implicitly unwrapped optional var unwrappedString: String! = "Value is expected." // same as above, but ! is a postfix operator (more syntax candy) @@ -93,7 +101,7 @@ if let someOptionalStringConstant = someOptionalString { // Swift has support for storing a value of any type. // AnyObject == id -// Unlike Objective-C `id`, AnyObject works with any value (Class, Int, struct, etc) +// Unlike Objective-C `id`, AnyObject works with any value (Class, Int, struct, etc.) var anyObjectVar: AnyObject = 7 anyObjectVar = "Changed value to a string, not good practice, but possible." @@ -295,7 +303,7 @@ print(numbers) // [3, 6, 18] // MARK: Structures // -// Structures and classes have very similar capabilites +// Structures and classes have very similar capabilities struct NamesTable { let names = [String]() |