Does Swift have a way of mixing in traits, a la Scala? The section of the Swift book on using extensions to add protocols to existing classes comes tantalizingly close. However,
Similar to Bryan Chen's answer:
import Foundation
protocol Named {
var name : String { get }
}
protocol NamedExtension : Named { // NB extends Named
var lowercaseName : String { get }
var uppercaseName : String { get }
}
struct NamedExtensionDefault { // Put defaults inside a struct to keep name spaces seperate
static func lowercaseName(named : NamedExtension) -> String {
return (named.name as NSString).lowercaseString
}
static func uppercaseName(named : NamedExtension) -> String {
return (named.name as NSString).uppercaseString
}
}
extension Int : NamedExtension {
var name : String {
return "Int"
}
// Use default implementation
var lowercaseName : String {
return NamedExtensionDefault.lowercaseName(self)
}
var uppercaseName : String {
return NamedExtensionDefault.uppercaseName(self)
}
}
1.name // result Int
1.uppercaseName // result "INT"
1.lowercaseName // result "int"
The main difference from Bryan's answer is that I didn't use generics because I made NamedExtension
extends Named
, so that the default implementations can access name
.