Thanks for that, it was really helpful. I see it now.
I’m happy to admit I had not fully appreciated the notion of pattern matching,
and I very much doubt I'm alone either.
The Swift Programming book goes some way to explain it (in the language
reference section) - maybe this is an area that ne
Yes, equals isn't assignment but pattern matching here. Reminds of Erlang,
which I love.
Michael
> On 9 Nov 2016, at 12:57, Zhao Xin via swift-users
> wrote:
>
> The `if case` is the same meaning as `switch-case`, so I don't think there is
> anything ambitious. For `switch-case`, it is not e
The `if case` is the same meaning as `switch-case`, so I don't think there
is anything ambitious. For `switch-case`, it is not equal, it is matching.
Zhaoxin
On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Nicholas Outram via swift-users <
swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I’ve been drilling down on the sy
