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Blocks

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Wrapping Existing Async and Closure Based code in async-await structure (Advanced Swift Topic)

Wrapping Existing Async and Closure Based code in async-await structure (Advanced Swift Topic)

If you haven't yet read couple of my posts that introduce a new async-await construct in Swift, below are the links you can follow to know more about it How to use async/await in Swift using ExamplesUsing async/await APIs in Swift 5.5. Examples of using async await

Objective-C blocks - Example and a Quick reference

This post is inspired by following Tweet when it was mentioned after years of experience, developer still could not remember the blocks syntax. After years of iOS development, I finally caved & made an xcode snip of an Obj-C block as a property. Still can never remember the syntax 🙈 — Jordan Morgan

Macro for checking nil/NULL blocks

This is an easy and quick tip I came across while going through NSHipster's Reader Submissions - 2016. Sometimes we use the blocks which we may or may not be nil. Well, unlike other mechanism by which you can send message to nil object, you cannot call a nil/NULL