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iOS Swift 2.0 Protocols Creating Flexible Objects Using Protocols Protocol Inheritance

Justin Janes
Justin Janes
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I have this same code snippet open in Xcode with no errors or warnings and the preview button isn't showing any compiler

I've tested this out in Xcode and I don't see any errors or warnings there - I've tried treating the inheritance by assigning the variables to self.cuddlyName etc. but that results in errors. I've re-watched the video but the video focuses on implementing inheritance of functions not simply variables inside of a struct.

protocols.swift
protocol AnimalType {
    var numberOfLegs: Int { get }
}

protocol PetType: AnimalType {
    var cuddlyName: String { get }

}

struct dog: PetType {
    var cuddlyName = "Boba"
    var numberOfLegs = 5

}

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Oh you're going to love this! Your code is fine. This is an example of the challenge being picky. You named your struct dog. It wants the struct to be named Dog. Note the capitalization. If I take your code and copy/paste it into the challenge and make that tiny change, your code passes! Happy coding! :sparkles: