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Swift Style
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Swift Style

by Erica Sadun
March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
226 pages
5h 13m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Mandating Maximum Line Widths

Some style guides mandate a maximum column count like 80 (LLVM style[32]), 120, and 160 (LinkedIn style[33]). The Swift Standard Library group adopts LLVM style with 80-character lines, but the Foundation and Dispatch library teams have adopted different house styles that aren’t tied to these limits.

When using maximum line widths, Xcode offers a visible page guide that you set in the Preferences > Text Editing pane. When working outside line-width limitations, reserve manual wrapping for clarity and structure emphasis, such as when laying out parameters or distinguishing generic declarations. Xcode does a fine job of presenting long lines.

Xcode’s Text Editing preference pane also enables you to do the following: ...

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