Swift 3 ObjectOriented Programming - Second Edition

Combining initializer requirements in protocols with generic types

We included an initializer requirement when we declared the AnimalProtocol protocol, so we know the necessary arguments to create an instance of any class that conforms to this protocol. We will add a new method that creates an instance of the generic type AnimalElement and adds it to the party members in the Party<AnimalElement> class.

The following lines show the code for the new createAndAddMember method that receives a name String argument and returns an instance of the generic type AnimalElement. We add the method to the body of the Party<AnimalElement: AnimalProtocol> where AnimalElement: Equatable open class declaration. The code file for the sample is included in the swift_3_oop_chapter_06_07 ...