Learning Swift

Enumerations

So far, we covered two of the three type classifications in Swift: structure and class. The third classification is called enumeration. Enumerations are used to define a group of related possible values that an instance can be. For example, if we want to represent the values of one of the three primary colors, an enumeration would be a great tool to do so.

Basic declaration

An enumeration is made up of cases much like a switch case and uses the keyword enum instead of struct or class. An enumeration for primary colors would look like this:

enum PrimaryColor {
    case Red
    case Green
    case Blue
}

You can then define a variable with this type and assign it one of the cases:

var color = PrimaryColor.Green

Note that to use one of the values, we ...