Please explain what the. " self " keyword is about in simple terms . Thank you

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Please explain what the. " self " keyword is about in simple terms .

Thank you

Answer 1 · 2016-07-25T00:40:06Z

July 25, 2016 12:40am

Hey there Jon,

That is a great question. Here is an excerpt from my Big Nerd Ranch Swift guide:

"All Swift methods have a self argument, which is used to access the instance on which the method is called."

Here is a code example from the Swift guide on methods as well:

class Counter 
{
    var count = 0
    func increment 
    {
        self.count += 1
    }
}

So in this case self is referring to the Counter class count property. You can see this here as well:

Is there a specific example you had? If so post it so we can check it out and chat it through.

Hope this helps a bit!

Cheers,

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