What are the changes in Swift 2.2?

Written by Paul Hudson    @twostraws

Swift 2.2 introduced a lot of major language changes. You can read my full article explaining the changes with code examples by clicking here, but here are the highlights:

• You can now compare tuples up to arity 6
• Compile-time Swift version checking
• More keywords can be used as argument labels
• Renamed debug identifiers: #line, #function, #file
• The ++ and -- operators are deprecated
• Traditional C-style for loops are deprecated
• Tuple splat syntax is deprecated
• var parameters have been deprecated
• Stringified selectors are deprecated
• New documentation keywords: recommended, recommendedover, and keyword

Available from iOS 7.0

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