Changing property value within struct

Question

I can't seem to wrap my head around getters/setters in Swift. I have this simple code, and can't change the value of the property within the struct

struct Example{
   var x = 0

   func changeX(){
     x = 1
   }
}

I get an error saying cannot assign to 'x' in 'self'

Answer 1 · 2014-12-28T03:08:58Z

December 28, 2014 3:08am

Hi Rafael,

By default a struct is immutable meaning functions defined within them cannot modify the data within the struct, we can however get around this by prefixing the function with mutating; setting this allows us to then modify the existing data within the struct.

struct Example {
   var x = 0

   mutating func changeX() {
     x = 1
   }
}

One thing to note is you don't want the mutating keyword prefixed to all your functions, you would only use it for simple changes, anything other than that is recommended to be modified using the variable you assigned the instance to which provides 100% control over the struct.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/24035861

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