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Great work! We’ve expanded on our understanding of structures and properties and learned about access control, adding a lot of useful tools to our Swift toolbelt. Here are the key points we covered in this lesson:

  • The boundaries for access control are modules, source files, and structs.
    • Public is the most permissive and allows access between modules. (useful for SDKs and frameworks)
    • Internal is the default level and allows access anywhere within a module.
    • File private allows access within a source file.
    • Private can only be used within the scope of a struct. (least permissive)
  • Private properties are defined using the private syntax.
    • Memberwise initializers can’t access private properties, so you need to use default values, make them optional, or use the init method.
  • Private methods use the same syntax as private properties and can only be called within the scope of the struct that defines them.
  • Computed properties aren’t stored values, rather they are derived from other stored properties.
    • Can be read-only. (only have getter method)
    • Can set them, in which case you change the underlying properties from which they are derived.
  • Property observers are built in methods that get called when properties are set.
    • didSet gives us the old value.
    • willSet gives us the new value.
  • Properties can have a more restricted access level to set vs. get.
  • Type properties are defined independently from any particular instance of a structure.

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