Chapter 10
Controlling Access
As alluded to in Chapter 2, Swift takes an innovative and broad-based approach to access control. This is especially evident when compared with Objective-C, where true access control is limited to instance variables—of which usage has been discouraged in favor of properties for several years. This chapter will provide an example of how circumventing intentional access control can be achieved, followed by an in-depth explanation of access control in Swift, aided by examples to help demonstrate each use case.
Access Control Compared
In Objective-C, stored value access control is limited to instance variables declared in @implementation, and method access control is truly not possible. Use of categories can help ...
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