Before I forget… Discoveries in Swift and iOS development! By Craig Grummitt

flatMap vs compactMap

Posted on September 23, 2018 by craiggrummitt — Leave a comment

In Swift 4.1, the flatMap function was divided into two functions. One kept the same name: flatMap This method flattens a sequence. Let’s say we have a two-dimensional array: We can use the flatMap higher order function to ‘flatten’ this…

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

Posted on October 31, 2014 by craiggrummitt — Leave a comment

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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