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Swift Protocol-Oriented Programming - Fourth Edition

By : Jon Hoffman
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Swift Protocol-Oriented Programming - Fourth Edition

By: Jon Hoffman

Overview of this book

Protocol-oriented programming is an incredibly powerful concept at the heart of Swift's design. Swift's standard library was developed using POP techniques, generics, and first-class value semantics; therefore, it is important for every Swift developer to understand these core concepts and take advantage of them. The fourth edition of this book is improved and updated to the latest version of the Swift programming language. This book will help you understand what protocol-oriented programming is all about and how it is different from other programming paradigms such as object-oriented programming. This book covers topics such as generics, Copy-On-Write, extensions, and of course protocols. It also demonstrates how to use protocol-oriented programming techniques via real-world use cases. By the end of this book, you will know how to use protocol-oriented programming techniques to build powerful and practical applications.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Swift as a protocol-oriented programming language

Just as we did with the object-oriented design, we will start off by creating a very basic diagram that demonstrates how to design the vehicle types in a protocol-oriented way. Just like the object-oriented diagram, this will be a very basic diagram that simply shows the types themselves without much detail:

The protocol-oriented design is relatively different from the object-oriented design. In the object-oriented design, we started the design with the superclass, which became the focus of the design and all the subclasses inherited functionality and properties from that superclass.

In the protocol-oriented design, we start the design with the protocol. The protocols and protocol extensions are the focus of the protocol-oriented design; however, as we have seen throughout this book, protocol-oriented design isn't simply...