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The documentation only mentions nested types, but it's not clear if they can be used as namespaces. I haven't found any explicit mentioning of namespaces.

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A quick Ctrl-F search of their iBook shows no instances of namespaces...so I'm going with no? –  Justin Niessner 20 hours ago
    
I don't know why this question is closed. I saw namespace on keynote at the left side of Swift icon, and I still cannot find any mention from the documentation... –  Eonil 11 hours ago
    
I couldn't find any information on this, Google led me to this question :). Perhaps one of the WWDC sessions will shed a bit more light on this. –  Zyphrax 8 hours ago
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Swift uses modules much like in python (see here and here) and as @Kevin Sylvestre suggested you can also use the nested types as namespaces.

And to extend the answer from @Daniel A. White, in WWDC they were talking about the modules in swift.

Also here is explained:

Inferred types make code cleaner and less prone to mistakes, while modules eliminate headers and provide namespaces.

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I believe this is achieved using:

struct Foo
{
    class Bar
    {
    }
}

Then it can be accessed using:

var dds = Foo.Bar();
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It was announced in the keynote that it does support namespaces.

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How does it work? –  Kevin Sylvestre 17 hours ago
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