Swift Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Reference Cycles in Closures

Time to add an accountant class that will keep track of a Person’s net worth. Create a new Swift file called Accountant.swift and define your new class.

Listing 24.9  Defining an Accountant (Accountant.swift)

import Foundation

class Accountant {
    typealias NetWorthChanged = (Double) -> ()

    var netWorthChangedHandler: NetWorthChanged? = nil
    var netWorth: Double = 0.0 {
        didSet {
            netWorthChangedHandler?(netWorth)
        }
    }

    func gainedNewAsset(asset: Asset) {
        netWorth += asset.value
    }
}

Accountant defines a typealias, NetWorthChanged, which is a closure that takes a Double (the new net worth value) and returns nothing. It has two properties: netWorthChangedHandler, which is an optional closure to call when ...