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Swift Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
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Swift Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

by Matthew Mathias, John Gallagher
November 2016
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
14h 42m
English
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Default Implementations with Protocol Extensions

Both of the protocol extensions you have written so far add new properties or methods to protocols. You can also use protocol extensions to provide default implementations for the protocol’s own requirements.

Recall from Chapter 19 that the CustomStringConvertible protocol has a single requirement: a readable String property named description. Change Exercise to inherit from CustomStringConvertible, meaning it also requires the description property.

Listing 23.9 Making Exercise inherit from CustomStringConvertible

import Cocoa

protocol Exercise: CustomStringConvertible {
    var name: String { get }
    var caloriesBurned: Double { get }
    var minutes: Double { get }
}
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