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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

Protocol and protocol extensions compared with superclasses

In the object-oriented programming example, we created a Vehicle superclass from which all the vehicle classes were derived. In the protocol-oriented programming example, we used a combination of protocols and protocol extensions to achieve the same result; however, there are several advantages to the protocol-oriented design.

To refresh our memory of the two solutions, let's examine the code for both the Vehicle superclass and the Vehicle protocol and protocol extension. The following code shows the Vehicle superclass:

class Vehicle {
fileprivate var vehicleTypes = [TerrainType]()
fileprivate var vehicleAttackTypes = [TerrainType]()
fileprivate var vehicleMovementTypes = [TerrainType]()

fileprivate var landAttackRange = -1
fileprivate var seaAttackRange = -1
fileprivate var airAttackRange = -1

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