Chapter 11
Generic Programming
Up to this point in this book, function and method parameter and return value types have been explicitly specified. Overloading offers a way to define multiple functions that share the same signature except for varying parameter and/or return value types. And protocols provide for declaring a set of requirements that an adopting type must contractually fulfill. Yet there is one more feature of Swift that may at first feel like a mere combination of aforementioned capabilities; however, in due time, it may prove to be one the most powerful features of the language: generics. As much as the Swift standard library is made up of protocols and extensions, generic types are more abundantly used than the other two combined. ...
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