Controlling Access
Scott Gardner · Apress eBooks · 2014
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. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.