Using a property as a default parameter value for a method in the same class

Question

In a Swift class, I want to use a property as a default parameter value for a method of the same class.

Here is my code :

class animal {
    var niceAn         


        

Answer 1

I think for now you can only use literals and type properties as default arguments.

The best option would be to overload the method, and you can implement the shorter version by calling the full one. I only used a struct here to omit the initializer.

struct Animal {

    var niceAnimal: Bool
    var numberOfLegs: Int

    func description(#numberOfLegs: Int) {
        description(niceAnimal, numberOfLegs: numberOfLegs)
    }

    func description(animalIsNice: Bool, numberOfLegs: Int) {
        // do something
    }

}