Throw or Rethrow that Error?

Deal with that Error

Steven Curtis
4 min readNov 5, 2023
Photo by Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash

Error handling in Swift has come a long way. But wait, there are throws and rethrows keywords? What's going on?

An in-depth look into the two types of closures, focussing on @escaping and @nonescaping closures.

Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging
This article has been developed using Xcode 11.4.1, and Swift 5.2.2

The example

Imagine a function that adds stuff to Strings (This is a convoluted example, people!).

We are going to use the following CustomError to make things clear

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The requirements are that we have a function that takes a name and function that takes a String and returns a String. This function that we take, however, can throw an error. This leads to our outer function being able to return an error itself.

Already the language of outer function starts to get a little confusing. In steps the code snippet!

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