<div dir="ltr">Jack,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the reply. It's genuinely appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Is there any constructive action the community can take to promote that these knowledge assets be made as "open source" as the language that implements their ideas? </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the helpful suggestions,</div><div><br></div><div>Steven</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 1:03 AM, Jack Lawrence <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jackl@apple.com" target="_blank">jackl@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Hi Steven,</div><div><br></div><div>The Swift book is also available on the web here: <a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/" target="_blank">https://developer.apple.<wbr>com/library/content/<wbr>documentation/Swift/<wbr>Conceptual/Swift_Programming_<wbr>Language/</a></div><div><br></div><div>The reference for the swift standard library is available on the web here: <a href="https://developer.apple.com/reference/swift" target="_blank">https://developer.apple.<wbr>com/reference/swift</a></div><div><br></div><div>We don't currently ship offline copies of the documentation outside of Xcode.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br><div>Jack</div></div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Dec 18, 2016, at 10:46 PM, Jon Shier via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><a href="http://swiftdoc.org" target="_blank">http://swiftdoc.org</a> is a good online reference, though not always completely up to date (just mostly).<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jon</div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 18, 2016, at 9:44 PM, Steven Harms via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-8090349665491369367Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div class="m_-8090349665491369367gmail_msg">Hi,<div class="m_-8090349665491369367gmail_msg"><br class="m_-8090349665491369367gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-8090349665491369367gmail_msg">I've been playing with Swift in Linux contexts, but I was wondering, how is one meant to consult reference work?</div><div class="m_-8090349665491369367gmail_msg"><br class="m_-8090349665491369367gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-8090349665491369367gmail_msg">The Swift language book is written in iBooks...so I don't have access to that in Linux. I'd love for there to be a PDF equivalent that I could leave on the Linux environment to work with.</div><div class="m_-8090349665491369367gmail_msg"><br class="m_-8090349665491369367gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-8090349665491369367gmail_msg">Alternatively, is there a rich HTML download of the API? I'm used to Perl and Ruby which shipped rich HTML pages that allowed you to research the API sans network connection. </div><div class="m_-8090349665491369367gmail_msg"><br></div><div class="m_-8090349665491369367gmail_msg">I hate to think an IDE is required to use a language e.g. XCode. Surely we should be able to code without an IDE's completion. I may be tempting the nursing home by thinking vim and good docs should cut it :blush:.</div><div class="m_-8090349665491369367gmail_msg"><br></div><div class="m_-8090349665491369367gmail_msg">Thanks,</div><div class="m_-8090349665491369367gmail_msg"><br></div><div class="m_-8090349665491369367gmail_msg">Steven</div><div class="m_-8090349665491369367gmail_msg"><br></div><div class="m_-8090349665491369367gmail_msg"><br></div></div><br><br>
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