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iOS Object-Oriented Swift Properties Getter and Setter methods

What is wrong here?(Question)

class Temperature { var celsius: Float = 0.0 var fahrenheit: Float { get { return (celsius * 1.8) + 32.0 } set { celsius = (fahrenheit-32)/1.8 } } }

4 Answers

William Li
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William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

How can xcode understand

newValue is an implicitly defined variable in Swift. It's used when you didn't provide any named argument to the setter method.

Here.

        set(f) {
            celsius = (f-32)/1.8
        }

This is one way to write the setter method, I passed in the f argument.

        set {
            celsius = (newValue-32)/1.8
        }

Here's another way, I didn't pass in argument, so newValue was implicitly call-in as argument to the setter method.

The 2 ways of defining setter method here are fundamentally equivalent.

William Li
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William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

Change this line celsius = (fahrenheit-32)/1.8 to

celsius = (newValue-32)/1.8

How can xcode understand, what i mean with newValue? Because of I wrote it under "var fahrenheit" ?

oh thank you :)