Onward to day 5 of 100 Days of Swift. Today was all about functions, and there were a few things that I didn't remember, mainly because I don't use them much when I code.

First up is variadic functions. I don't use these because I tend to use arrays when …

I'm stuck in a loop, doing day 4 of 100 Days of Swift again.

Only two short comments today.

First, I'd forgotten about repeat loops. Does anyone really use them?

repeat {
    print("The body of a repeat loop is always executed at least once.")
    break
} while true

Second, I also …

Onward to day 3 of 100 Days of Swift!

Just a few tidbits today. First of all, I'd forgotten about the fallthrough keyword in a switch statement. I guess I understand the intent here, people forget to use break all the time. However, it seems like every other language's switch …

Yay, on to day 2 of 100 Days of Swift!

I'd forgotten that dictionary literals in Swift are written with square brackets, instead of with curly braces like pretty much every other language that I've used.

var languages = [
    "Alex": ["English", "Italian", "Japanese"],
    "Skyler": ["English", "German", "Latin"],
    "Hal": ["English", "German"],
]

I'd …

I'm tackling 100 Days of Swift again. Last time I tried it, I got sidetracked by personal stuff and bailed after a few weeks.

I've already shipped a few apps in Swift, so I'm not doing this to learn Swift from scratch. I'm trying to learn the useful patterns and …