Global variables in Swift are not variables
The title sounds pretty strange, but I will explain what it means. While playing with Swift I’ve faced weird behaviour, a feature in fact, which isn’t covered in documentation (at least I didn’t find...
View ArticleComposing functions in Swift
In Swift – the new programming language introduced by Apple – functions are first class citizens. This basically means, that a function can be passed as a parameter, returned from another function or...
View ArticleCreation of pure Swift module
If you have already started playing with swift, you probably thought about how to include third party libraries into your project or how to distribute yours. Apple provides a mechanism to distribute...
View ArticleBDD-style testing in Swift with Sleipnir
Introduction In Objective-C people use different frameworks to write BDD-style tests for their code. Some of them are: Cedar Kiwi Specta With the inroduction of Swift we’ve decided to create BDD-style...
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