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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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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

Issues with object-oriented design

Two of the issues that we saw with the object-oriented design were directly related to each other and are the result of Swift being a single-inheritance language. Remember a single-inheritance language is a language that limits a class to having not more than one superclass.

Object-oriented design with a single-inheritance language, such as Swift, can lead to bloated superclasses because we may need to include functionality that is needed by only a few of the subclasses. This leads to the second issue related to Swift being a single-inheritance language, which is the inheritance of functionality that a type does not need.

In our design, we had to include the functionality for all three terrain types because the vehicle types may be able to move or attack in any of the terrain types. This extra functionality may lead to errors in our code if we...

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