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Gaston C. Hillar
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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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Combining inheritance and protocols


We can combine class inheritance with protocol conformance. The following lines show the code for a new AngryCatAlien class that inherits from the AngryCat class and conforms to the Alien protocol. Note that the class declaration includes the superclass (AngryCat) and the implemented protocol (Alien) separated by a comma after the colon (:):

public class AngryCatAlien : AngryCat, Alien {
    public var numberOfEyes: Int = 0
    
    init (nickName: String, age: UInt, fullName: String, initialScore: UInt, x: UInt, y: UInt, numberOfEyes: Int) {
        super.init(nickName: nickName, age: age, fullName: fullName, initialScore: initialScore, x: x, y: y)
        self.numberOfEyes = numberOfEyes
    }
    
    public func appear() {
        print("I'm \(fullName) and you can see my \(numberOfEyes) eyes.")
    }
    
    public func disappear() {
        print("\(fullName) disappears.")
    }
}

As a result of the previous code, we have a new class named AngryCatAlien...

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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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