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Gaston C. Hillar
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Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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Extending base types to conform to custom protocols


Now, we want to be able to use any of the integer types as types in our MutableVector3D<T> and ImmutableVector3D<T> classes. We just need to extend the desired types to make them conform to the previously created NumericForVector protocol.

We want to make the two classes capable of working with elements of any integer type supported in Swift—that is, any of the following types:

  • Int

  • Int16

  • Int32

  • Int64

  • Int8

  • UInt

  • UInt16

  • UInt32

  • UInt64

  • UInt8

The following lines extend the previously enumerated types to conform to the NumericForVector protocol:

// Signed integers
extension Int: NumericForVector { }
extension UInt: NumericForVector { }
extension Int16: NumericForVector { }
extension Int32: NumericForVector { }
extension Int64: NumericForVector { }
extension Int8: NumericForVector { }

// Unsigned integers
extension UInt16: NumericForVector { }
extension UInt32: NumericForVector { }
extension UInt64: NumericForVector { }
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Gaston C. Hillar

Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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