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Re:Introducing Swift by VeejayRampay on Monday June 02, 2014 @07:10PM (#7837096)
I saw a lot of people mention ADT in relation to Swift but I haven't found examples in the documentation book I downloaded from Apple. Would you be kind enough to provide the example you saw? EDIT: My bad, page 40 in the section about protocols (unless I'm missing something).
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Re:Introducing Swift by tel on Monday June 02, 2014 @11:25PM (#7837979)
It's on the bottom half of the page about enumerations. Typically languages have product types, but lack true sum types. Swift's enums provide such leverage.

That said, Swift's types are a bit less than recursive, so there's a bit of niggling still before you get to the affordances of something like Haskell's `data`.

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Re:Introducing Swift by VeejayRampay on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @12:06PM (#7841000)
Thank you.
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