What does $0 and $1 mean in Swift Closures?

Question

let sortedNumbers = numbers.sort { $0 > $1 }
print(sortedNumbers)

Can anyone explain, what $0 and $1 means in swift?

Answer 1

It is shorthand argument names.

Swift automatically provides shorthand argument names to inline closures, which can be used to refer to the values of the closure’s arguments by the names $0, $1, $2, and so on.

If you use these shorthand argument names within your closure expression, you can omit the closure’s argument list from its definition, and the number and type of the shorthand argument names will be inferred from the expected function type. The in keyword can also be omitted, because the closure expression is made up entirely of its body:

    reversed = names.sort( { $0 > $1 } )

Here, $0 and $1 refer to the closure’s first and second String arguments.