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General-purpose languages provide set of operators—convenience constructs that behave like functions—and Swift is no different. You’ve already seen at least one such operator: +. Swift provides a wide range of built-in operators and allows you to define operators for your own classes and to extend built-in classes to add new operators.
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© 2015 Waqar Malik
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Malik, W. (2015). Operators. In: Learn Swift on the Mac. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0376-7_6
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