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Swift 3 Object-Oriented Programming

You're reading from   Swift 3 Object-Oriented Programming Implement object-oriented programming paradigms with Swift 3.0 and mix them with modern functional programming techniques to build powerful real-world applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787120396
Length 370 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Objects from the Real World to the Playground FREE CHAPTER 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 and Functional Programming 8. Extending and Building Object-Oriented Code 9. Exercise Answers

Declaring compound assignment operator functions


We also want to be able to increase the value of the age property of the different Animal instances by using the addition assignment operator (+=). This operator is one of the compound assignment operators that Swift provides and it combines assignment (=) with the addition operator (+).

Note

Swift 3 removed both the pre-increment, post-increment, pre-decrement, and post-decrement operators. In other words, we cannot use ++ and -- in Swift 3. We might define a prefix increment and a postfix increment to increase the value of the age property, but it doesn't make sense to define an operator that Swift 3 has removed. Instead, we will use the addition assignment operator.

We have to declare an operator function with += as its name, specify the Animal type for the left argument, and specify the Int type for the right argument. Thus, we have left and right as the arguments for the operator function. In this case, the function doesn't return a value...

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