How to filter in Swift using where

In F#, it”s common to pipeline a chain of commands together, perhaps filtering an input array before mapping with a function:

let xs = [| 1; 2; 3; 4; 5 |]
xs |> Array.filter (fun x -> x > 2) |> Array.map (fun x -> x*x)

Marcin Krzyzanowski wrote a neat post showing how Swift uses where in a number of cases to achieve similar filtering.

The fact is you can use where keyword in a case label of a switch statement, a catch clause of a do statement, or in the case condition of an if, while, guard, for-in statement, or to define type constraints

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