Introduction

The Swift coding conventions guide documents many best practices for writing Swift. Guidance here comes from a combination of our collective practical experiences and documentation from Apple. This is meant to be a living document and all contents are perpetually open for debate and improvement. For details on how to contribute, see the contribution guidelines.

Resources

• Swift official language guide.

Table of Contents

• Annotations and Modifiers
• Comments
• Delegates
• Early Return
• File Organization
• Immutability
• Naming
• Property Observers
• Range Operators
• Type Casting
• Type Inference

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