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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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Declaring classes that adopt protocols


Now, we will declare a class that specifies that it conforms to the ComicCharacter protocol in its declaration in the Playground. Instead of specifying a superclass, the class declaration includes the name of the previously declared ComicCharacter protocol after the class name (AngryDog) and the colon (:). We can read the class declaration as "the AngryDog class conforms to the ComicCharacter protocol."

However, the class doesn't implement any of the required properties and methods specified in the protocol, so it doesn't really conform to the ComicCharacter protocol, as shown in the following:

public class AngryDog: ComicCharacter {

}

The Playground execution will fail because the AngryDog class doesn't conform to the ComicCharacter protocol, so the Swift compiler generates the following errors and notes:

error: type 'AngryDog' does not conform to protocol 'ComicCharacter'
public class AngryDog: ComicCharacter {
             ^
note: protocol requires...
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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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