Swift Quick Syntax Reference

Chapter    28

Nested Functions

You can code functions within other functions. Nesting functions gives you a way to organize and reuse your code while limiting the scope of functions to the parent function.

For instance, let’s say you wanted to write a Swift program to help a teacher summarize how some students performed on the tests they took this week. You could write a function called analyzeTestScores() that would figure out what the average score of a test was including all students and then would write a report.

Since this function has to do a few things, it makes sense to organize each task into separate functions. You could start by adding a function that returns the average test score based on an array of numbers (see Listing 28-1). ...