Swift 3 ObjectOriented Programming - Second Edition

Declaring compound assignment operator functions

We also want to be able to increase the value of the age property of the different Animal instances by using the addition assignment operator (+=). This operator is one of the compound assignment operators that Swift provides and it combines assignment (=) with the addition operator (+).

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Swift 3 removed both the pre-increment, post-increment, pre-decrement, and post-decrement operators. In other words, we cannot use ++ and -- in Swift 3. We might define a prefix increment and a postfix increment to increase the value of the age property, but it doesn't make sense to define an operator that Swift 3 has removed. Instead, we will use the addition assignment operator.

We have to declare an operator ...