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Swift Protocol-Oriented Programming

You're reading from   Swift Protocol-Oriented Programming Increase productivity and build faster applications with Swift 5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789349023
Length 224 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Starting with the Protocol 2. Our Type Choices FREE CHAPTER 3. Extensions 4. Generics 5. Memory Management 6. Object-Oriented Programming 7. Protocol-Oriented Programming 8. Adopting Design Patterns in Swift 9. Case Studies 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Conforming to the Equatable protocol

In this section, we will show how we can conform to the Equatable protocol using extensions. When a type conforms to the Equatable protocol, we can use the equal-to (==) operator to compare for equality, and the not-equal-to (!=) operator to compare for inequality.

If you are comparing instances of a custom type, it is a good idea to have that type conform to the Equatable protocol because it makes comparing instances very easy.

Let's start off by creating the type that we will compare. We will name this type Place:

struct Place { 
    let id: String 
    let latitude: Double  
    let longitude: Double 
} 

In the Place type, we have three properties, which represent the ID of the place and the latitude and longitude coordinates for its location. If there are two instances of the Place type that have the same ID and coordinates, then...

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