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You can declare a function anywhere with the func keyword. Functions are used to organize code into reusable chunks that take input parameters and return results. Listing 27-1 shows an example of a function that returns the string “Hello World.”

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Campbell, M. (2014). Functions. In: Swift Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0439-9_27

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