I saw a few tweets and questionings recently about the nonmutating keyword in swift. I had to confront it sometime in the past so I will try to expose a justification of it’s existence with a simple example.

Scenario

Rationale

A common Swift problem is that extensions of generics can only be constrained to protocols. We use a lot of big words here but this issue is quite common and a simple example will…

Rationale

A common Swift problem is that extensions of generics can only be constrained to protocols. We use a lot of big words here but this issue is quite common and a simple example will…