When to use function vs property in Swift

Issue #687

Although I do Swift, I often follow Kotlin guideline https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/coding-conventions.html#functions-vs-properties

In some cases functions with no arguments might be interchangeable with read-only properties. Although the semantics are similar, there are some stylistic conventions on when to prefer one to another.

Prefer a property over a function when the underlying algorithm:

• does not throw
• is cheap to calculate (or cached on the first run)
• returns the same result over invocations if the object state hasn’t changed

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Updated at 2020-10-27 09:56:38