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Accessing Swift’s Compiler and Interpreter: REPL

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Let’s now investigate how to access the Swift compiler from the command-line interface known as the Read-Eval-Print-Loop, or REPL. This is where you can interact with the compiler by entering statements, which the compiler will interpret and evaluate immediately.

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Malik, W. (2015). Accessing Swift’s Compiler and Interpreter: REPL. In: Learn Swift on the Mac. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0376-7_3

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