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Swift Enums & Patterns

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Summary

This lesson is about Enumeration in Swift which is very feature-rich compared to Enum in C. The enum in Swift is a first-class type that can have associated values for storing additional information, raw values for primitive data types, computed properties, and member methods.

Key points

Enum grouping a set of values related to type-safe
Defined by the keyword 'enum'
Supporting 'Associated Values' to embed specific data on each case
Supporting 'Raw Values' with default types such as String or Int
Very idiomatic combined with the statement 'switch' for pattern matching

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