Sequencing Swift Components

Understanding the Swift language based on what syntactic components are already acceptable by Xcode is the reason for creating this topic. For example, the word for is already acceptable and it can be used inside a nesting environment. The same is true for the other syntactic components (for example struct, func, etc.) that are already known by the compiler and the behavior of the compilation processes is based on the recognition of the syntactic components that do not need any kind of name associations (for example, func SwiftForums {} where SwiftForums is the name associated by the user for the creation of a function).

In simple terms, is there a way to figure out the total number of existing syntactic components (mainly keywords whose functionality is already defined by Xcode) already present in Xcode? If it is possible, it can reduce the time to document the Swift components that can be sequentially used by new developers to make new user interfaces through Xcode.

Hi Azib, welcome to the forums!

I can't give you a direct answer, but I can give some pointers that can help.

Firstly, Xcode is a red herring here. Xcode is just an IDE, but you could write Swift in any other text editor or IDE. The relevant component here is just the Swift compiler.

The term for these "syntactic" components you're referring to like for, struct, and func are called keywords.

The general term for the set of all "syntactic components" and the valid ways to combine them is called a language's grammar. You can find an approximate summary of Swift's grammar, here.

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