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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

Creating shortcuts with subscripts


We want to create a shortcut to access the members of the party. Subscripts are very useful to generate shortcuts to access members of any array, collection, list, or sequence. Subscripts can define getter and/or setter methods that receive the argument specified in the subscript declaration. In this case, we will add a read-only subscript to allow us to retrieve a member of the party through its index value. Thus, the subscript will only define a getter method.

We will use UInt as the type for the index argument because we don't want negative integer values, and the getter for the subscript will return an optional type. In case the index value received is an invalid value, the getter will return None.

First, we will add the following line to the PartyProtocol protocol body:

   subscript(index: UInt) -> MemberType? { get }

We included the subscript keyword followed by the argument name and its required type—which is the returned type, MemberType?—and the...

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