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iOS Swift Basics (retired) Control Flow Switch Statement

Samuel Seidel
Samuel Seidel
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Posted by Samuel Seidel
Samuel Seidel
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What's up with the IDE's spacing for the switch statement?

switch something {
     case 1:

instead of 

switch something {
case 1:

2 Answers

rtholen
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rtholen
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rtholen
rtholen
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Done by convention to improve readability and ease of maintaining the code. However, if desired, your IDE should have a configuration option somewhere where you can customize indentation to your liking.

Samuel Seidel
Samuel Seidel
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Samuel Seidel
Samuel Seidel
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I actually meant, that, xcode is choosing the second example for formatting. Shouldn't it be doing it the first way?

rtholen
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rtholen
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Apologies for misinterpreting. I did see this discussion, which may provide some background on xcode formatting.