Monthly Archives: October 2014

Swift – a history of the inspiration for ‘new’ concepts!

In studying Swift initially, I was quite interested to read about concepts that I wasn’t familiar with, and curious to know if these were brand new concepts invented by excited Apple engineers, or if they were inspired from other other languages.

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Parameter defaults and Optional function parameters in Swift

This post has been updated for Swift 3.0 here. This post has been updated for Swift 3.0 here. Swift has an interesting multi-pronged approach to dealing with default and optional function parameters, based in part on its relationship with Objective C and

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