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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
www.PacktPub.com
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

Overriding and overloading methods


Swift allows us to define a method with the same name many times with different arguments. This feature is known as method overloading. In some cases, as in our previous example, we can overload the initializer. However, it is very important to mention that a similar effect might be achieved with optional parameters or default values for specific arguments.

For example, we can take advantage of method overloading to define multiple versions of the bark method that we have to define in the Dog class. However, it is very important to avoid code duplication when we overload methods.

Sometimes, we define a method in a class, and we know that a subclass might need to provide a different version of the method. When a subclass provides a different implementation of a method defined in a superclass with the same name, arguments, and return type, we say that we are overriding a method. When we override a method, the implementation in the subclass overwrites the code...

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