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Blocks

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async Alternatives and Continuations - Bridging legacy async code with async-await structure (Advanced Swift Topic)

async Alternatives and Continuations - Bridging legacy async code with 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 [http://nshipster.com/new-years-2016/]. Sometimes we use the blocks [https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ProgrammingWithObjectiveC/WorkingwithBlocks/WorkingwithBlocks.html] which we may or may not be nil. Well, unlike