Exploring RawRepresentable and Enums in Swift

Enums for Raw types

3 min readMar 22

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Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging

RawRepresentable is a protocol from the Swift standard library. We might be aware of this in that conformance is autosynthesized — but are we able to dive deeper? This article is designed to help us do just that.

Prerequisites:

Steven Curtis

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