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  • Nicoara Talpes
    Nicoara Talpes
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    how does he use the let keyowrd in the short downloadTaskWithRequest form?

    Posted April 8, 2016 7:57pm by Nicoara Talpes
    Nicoara Talpes
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    • Swift Closures
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  • james bunn
    james bunn
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    If the completion parameter is a closure, why doesn't it implement brackets around the parameters

    Posted February 14, 2016 3:38pm by james bunn
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  • james bunn
    james bunn
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    completionHandler parameters. Shouldn't they be referenced as outputs or results instead of parameters?

    Posted February 13, 2016 9:46pm by james bunn
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  • Wouter Bouma
    Wouter Bouma
    3,229 Points

    downloadTask does not compile

    Posted September 20, 2015 6:41pm by Wouter Bouma
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  • Brian Patterson
    Brian Patterson
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    func downloadJSONFromURL(completion:([String:AnyObject]?)->())

    Posted August 26, 2015 10:20pm by Brian Patterson
    Brian Patterson
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  • dexter foo
    dexter foo
    8,233 Points

    why in a lot of Pasan's videos does he define something as a constant but says he's defining it as a variable?

    Posted July 26, 2015 2:38pm by dexter foo
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  • Dominic Pettifer
    Dominic Pettifer
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    How to get network code to run

    Posted July 23, 2015 11:53pm by Dominic Pettifer
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