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Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
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Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

by Aaron Hillegass, Adam Preble, Nate Chandler
April 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
556 pages
17h 47m
English
Big Nerd Ranch Guides
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Optionals

Swift has a generic optional type, Optional<T>. In practice, an optional is indicated by appending ? to a type name:

var anOptionalFloat: Float?
var anOptionalArrayOfStrings: [String]?
var anOptionalArrayOfOptionalStrings: [String?]?

An optional lets you express the possibility that a variable may not store a value at all. The value of an optional will either be an instance of the specified type or nil.

Throughout the book, you will have many chances to use optionals. What follows is an example to get you familiar with the syntax so that you can focus on the use of the optionals later.

Imagine a group of instrument readings.

var reading1: Float
var reading2: Float
var reading3: Float

Sometimes, an instrument ...

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