We already declared an operator function that allows any instance of Animal or its subclasses to use the postfix increment (++) operator. However, sometimes we want to specify a different behavior for one of the subclasses and its subclasses.
For example, we might want to express the age of dogs in the age value that is equivalent to humans. We can declare an operator function for the postfix increment (++) operator that receives a Dog instance as an argument and increments the age value 7 years instead of just one. The following lines show the code that achieves this goal:
public postfix func ++ (dog: Dog) {
dog.age += 7
}The following lines create an instance of the SmoothFoxTerrier class named goofy, print the age for goofy, apply the postfix ++ operator, and print the new age. Because SmoothFoxTerrier is a subclass of Dog, Swift invokes the operator function that receives a Dog instance instead of invoking the one that receives an...
