Swift Quick Syntax Reference

Chapter    45

Extensions

You use extensions when you want to add methods and computed properties to a class, structure, or enumeration that already exists. This comes in handy when you want new behavior for a type but only in a particular context. Extensions will remind Objective-C programmers of categories.

To extend a type, you use the extension keyword followed by the name of the type you want to extend, as shown in Listing 45-1.

Listing 45-1. Extending the Person Class

class Person {    var name: String = "Name"    var age:Int = 0    func profile() -> String {        return "I'm \(self.name) and I'm \(self.age) years old."    }}extension Person {    var dogYears:Int {    get{        return self.age * 7    }    }}var p = Person()p.name = "Matt" ...