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iOS Build a Simple iPhone App with Swift 2.0 Structs as Data Models Recap: Data Models

Posted by Abdijabar Mohamed
Abdijabar Mohamed
1,462 Points

Why do we not use an initializer method when creating the model in our app?

Any one who can explain it? Also, do you think it is OK not to memorize how to write the chaining of methods etc

1 Answer

Nathan Tallack
Nathan Tallack
22,159 Points
Nathan Tallack
Nathan Tallack
22,159 Points

One thing that is wonderful about Struct objects is the default initializers that come with it. Unless you have the need to initialize computed properties or do other such complex things you can just allow the struct to initialize all of your properties for you.

This makes for very simple and clean code, as you just saw with our FactModel and ColorModel in this project.