The Difference in Creating an Object with () and init()?
Initialise!!
3 min readJun 9, 2020
Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging
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.
If you need a reminder about initializers please do take a look at this guide . I'll wait.
Are you back?
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:
