Swift Functional Programming - Second Edition

Protocol extensions

Protocol extensions are among the most important parts of the POP paradigm. They allow us to add functionality to all types that conform to a given protocol. Without protocol extensions, if we had common functionality that was necessary for all types that conformed to a particular protocol, then we would need to add that functionality to each type. This would lead to large amounts of duplicated code.

The following example extends our protocol by adding a logout method and its implementation; thus, any struct, enum, or class that conforms to UserProtocol will have the logout functionality:

extension UserProtocol {     func logout(userName: String) -> Bool {         return true     } }