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iOS Build a Simple iPhone App with Swift Structs As Data Models Structs or Classes

Michael Rockett
Michael Rockett
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Posted by Michael Rockett
Michael Rockett
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Why would a class be better suited?

At the end, Pasan says a class would be better in this instance. Why would that be true? The facts array are just simple fixed values. I would have thought a struct would be the best choice here.

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jonlunsford
jonlunsford
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jonlunsford
jonlunsford
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At the end of the video, Pasan is pointing out that people coming from other languages might ask "Why wouldn't you model this as a class property?" Class properties are properties on the class and not the instance of a class. Not all languages support the Struct type.

In Swift it would be appropriate to use an instance of the Struct type like so:

let factProvider = FactProvider()

The factProvider constant represents an Instance of FactProvider Struct. In other languages the only option might be to model it as a class with a class property. In this case you would call the class directly in your code like so:

FactProvider.fact
Michael Rockett
Michael Rockett
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Michael Rockett
Michael Rockett
40,365 Points

Oh ok, I understand now. Thank you.