Mastering Swift 5.3 - Sixth Edition

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Error Handling and Availability

When I first started writing applications with Objective-C, one of the most noticeable deficiencies was the lack of exception handling. Most modern programming languages, such as Java and C#, use try...catch blocks, or something similar, for exception handling. While Objective-C did have the try...catch block, it wasn't used within the Cocoa framework itself, and it never really felt like a true part of the language. I have significant experience in C, so I was able to understand how Apple's frameworks received and responded to errors. To be honest, I sometimes preferred this method, even though I had grown accustomed to exception handling with Java and C#. When Swift was first introduced, I was hoping that ...