Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript

© Radoslava Leseva Adams and Hristo Lesev 2016

Radoslava Leseva Adams and Hristo Lesev, Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1666-8_19

19. Types

Radoslava Leseva Adams¹  and Hristo Lesev²

(1)London, UK

(2)Kazanlak, Bulgaria

Prepare for a relatively fast pace in this chapter. We will speed through topics related to types in Swift and delve in more detail into those that are likely to be less familiar to an ActionScript developer. The chapter starts with an overview of Swift’s type policy and goes briefly over some of its primitive types. Then we go a little deeper and explore optional types. Expect weird syntax there. Moving on, we see how to query an object’s type and how to type cast. We finish with a few useful references ...