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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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Declaring a class that works with a constrained generic type


The following lines declare a PartyError enum that conforms to the ErrorType protocol. This way, we will be able to throw a specific exception in the next class that we will create:

public enum PartyError: ErrorType {
    case InsufficientMembersToRemoveLeader
    case InsufficientMembersToVoteLeader
}

The following lines declare a Party class that takes advantage of generics to work with many types. The class name is followed by a less than sign (<), a T that identifies the generic type parameter, a colon (:), and a protocol name that the T generic type parameter must conform to, which is the AnimalProtocol protocol. Then, the where keyword, followed by T (which identified the type) and a colon (:) that indicates that the T generic type parameter has to be a type that also conforms to another protocol—that is, the Equatable protocol. Finally, the greater than sign (>) ends the type constraints declaration that is included...

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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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