The Difference in Creating an Object with () and init()?

Initialise!!

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This article has been developed using Xcode 11.5, and Swift 5.2.4

Prerequisites:

• To create a Playground you might wish to take a look at my Guide to Playgrounds

The Question

You might have seen the two alternatives that follow for instantiating a class: Person(name: "Dave") and Person.init(name: "Dave") . What is the difference, and which should we use?

This article seeks to give the solution

An Example

Imagine you have a struct. This struct is going to store a person's name.

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Right.

This struct can be created in Swift by using:

now there are two alternative ways to create an instance of this object in Swift: