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Object???Oriented Programming with Swift 2

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785885693
Pages 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Object–Oriented Programming with Swift 2
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Objects from the Real World to Playground 2. Structures, Classes, and Instances 3. Encapsulation of Data with Properties 4. Inheritance, Abstraction, and Specialization 5. Contract Programming with Protocols 6. Maximization of Code Reuse with Generic Code 7. Object-Oriented Programming and Functional Programming 8. Extending and Building Object-Oriented Code Exercise Answers Index

Customizing initialization


We want to initialize instances of the Circle class with the radius value. In order to do so, we can take advantage of customized initializers. Initializers aren't methods, but we will write them with syntax that is very similar to the instance methods. They will use the init keyword to differentiate from instance methods, and Swift will execute them automatically when we create an instance of a given type. Swift runs the code within the initializer before any other code within a class.

We can define an initializer that receives the radius value as an argument and use it to initialize a property with the same name. We can define as many initializers as we want to, and therefore, we can provide many different ways of initializing a class. In this case, we just need one initializer.

The following lines create a Circle class and define an initializer within the class body:

class Circle {
    var radius: Double
    init(radius: Double)
    {
        print("I'm initializing...
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