Advanced Pattern Matching

Finishing Words

released Fri, 15 Feb 2019
Swift Version 5.0

Finishing Words

Pattern Matching is a really powerful feature of Swift. It is one of the defining features that makes Swift Code so much nicer to read than what you'd write in Objective-C. It is also deeply integrated into the language as it can be used with let, guard, for, if, and switch. It also allows adding where clauses, using is or as for type casts, lets you extend it via ~= and much more.