Idiomatic APIs
Help your agent choose language features and APIs that express the code's intent more clearly.
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Modern Swift
Refine code for clarity, maintainability, and performance through idiomatic use of modern Swift APIs, including modern Swift concurrency and collection processing.
What your agent can improve
Modern Swift concurrency
Give your agent guidance on concurrency API choices and how to apply modern Swift conventions.
Collection processing
Identify incorrect indexing and unnecessary processing so your agent can work with collections more safely and efficiently.
Example findings
These examples show the patterns SwiftFairy flags and the guidance your agent can use to address them. Highlighted lines mark the code to review; each finding indicates whether the guidance is a requirement, recommendation, or consideration.
Should
Count matches without building an array
When only the number of matching elements is needed, filtering an array creates an unnecessary intermediate array. count(where:) counts the matches directly.
Pattern flagged for review
let temperatures = [-5, 10, -2, 20, 25, -1]
let warmDays = temperatures.filter {
$0 > 0
}.count
A possible improvement
let temperatures = [-5, 10, -2, 20, 25, -1]
let warmDays = temperatures.count {
$0 > 0
}
count(where:) returns the same result without allocating an intermediate array. It requires a Swift 6 compiler.
Consider
Exit nested loops without a flag
When finding a result should end both nested loops, a labeled break can exit the outer loop directly. This avoids a flag whose only purpose is to communicate that the search has finished.
Pattern flagged for review
var stop = false
for row in matrix {
for value in row {
if value == 5 {
print(value)
stop = true
break
}
}
if stop {
break
}
}
A possible improvement
search: for row in matrix {
for value in row {
if value == 5 {
print(value)
break search
}
}
}
The labelled break exits both loops without temporary state. Use it when the flag has no other purpose and exiting directly preserves the work performed before leaving the loops.
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