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iOS Object-Oriented Swift Inheritance Overriding Methods

Posted by Aaron Zheng
Aaron Zheng
1,517 Points

What is +=?

class Button { var width: Double var height: Double

init(width:Double, height:Double){
    self.width = width
    self.height = height
}

func incrementBy(points: Double){
    width += points
    height += points
}

}

class RoundButton: Button { var cornerRadius: Double = 5.0 }

2 Answers

Maciej Sitko
Maciej Sitko
16,164 Points
Maciej Sitko
Maciej Sitko
16,164 Points 
property += 1

Is the shorthand notation for

property = property + 1;

In other words, incrementing itself by a number;

jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points
jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points

increment

shorthand is ++

basically plus 1 you'll see it a lot in for loops.

Maciej Sitko
Maciej Sitko
16,164 Points
Maciej Sitko
Maciej Sitko
16,164 Points

Is it?

jason chan, Increment shorthand as you present increments value only by one and in the example, this may not be the case. We may want to increment it by arbitrary number.

Plus, to avoid confusion now I think the proper answer would be the specific one for incrementor by one:

++property

As in this sense you'd want to explain incrementing that happens before variable assignments, not after, which on the other hand, looks like this

property++