Chapter 12. Working with Closures
Today, most major programming languages have functionalities similar to what closures offer. Some of these implementations are really hard to use (Objective-C blocks), while others are easy (Java lambda and C# delegates). I found that the functionality that closures provide is especially useful when developing frameworks. I have also used them extensively when communicating with remote services over a network connection. While blocks in Objective-C are incredibly useful (and I used them quite a bit), their syntax used to declare a block was absolutely horrible. Luckily, when Apple was developing the Swift language, they made the syntax of closures much easier to use and understand.
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