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The document explains the concept of functions in programming, emphasizing their role in reusing code and avoiding repetition. It provides an example of a Swift function, printHelp(), which prints a welcome message for users of an app. Additionally, it outlines various aspects of functions such as accepting parameters, returning values, and different types of parameters.

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Functions

The document explains the concept of functions in programming, emphasizing their role in reusing code and avoiding repetition. It provides an example of a Swift function, printHelp(), which prints a welcome message for users of an app. Additionally, it outlines various aspects of functions such as accepting parameters, returning values, and different types of parameters.

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Functions

1. Writing functions
Functions let us re-use code, which means we can write a function to do something interesting then run that function from lots of places.
Repeating code is generally a bad idea, and functions help us avoid doing that.

To start with, we’re going to write a function that prints help information for users of our app. We might need this anywhere in our app, so
having it as a function is a good idea.

Swift functions start with the func keyword, then your function name, then open and close parentheses. All the body of your function – the code
that should be run when the function is requested – is placed inside braces. Let’s write the printHelp() function now:

func printHelp() {
let message = """
Welcome to MyApp!
Run this app inside a directory of images and
MyApp will resize them all into thumbnails
"""
print(message)
}

We can now run that using printHelp() by itself:

printHelp()

Running a function is often referred to as calling a function.


2. Accepting parameters
3. Returning values
4. Parameter values
5. Omitting parameter labels
6. Default parameters
7. Variadic functions
8. Writing throwing functions
9. Running throwing functions
10. inout parameters

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