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Swift Protocol-Oriented Programming - Fourth Edition

You're reading from  Swift Protocol-Oriented Programming - Fourth Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2019
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781789349023
Pages 224 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Jon Hoffman Jon Hoffman
Profile icon Jon Hoffman

Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface 1. Starting with the Protocol 2. Our Type Choices 3. Extensions 4. Generics 5. Memory Management 6. Object-Oriented Programming 7. Protocol-Oriented Programming 8. Adopting Design Patterns in Swift 9. Case Studies 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Type constraints with generics

A type constraint specifies that a generic type must inherit from a specific class or conform to a particular protocol. This allows us to use the methods or properties defined by the parent class or protocol with the generic types. Let's look at how to use type constraints by rewriting the genericEqual() function to use the Comparable protocol:

func testGenericComparable<T: Comparable>(a: T, b: T) -> Bool { 
    return a == b 
}  

To specify the type constraint, we put the type or protocol constraint after the generic placeholder, thus separating the generic placeholder and the constraint with a colon. This new function works in ways that we might expect it to, and it will compare the values of the two parameters and return true if they are equal, or false if they are not.

We can declare multiple constraints, just like we can declare...

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