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Sam Belcher
Sam Belcher
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Posted by Sam Belcher
Sam Belcher
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Custom Types

Hi, I am confused with custom types, can someone explain their purpose and their advantage over regular types?

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Let's put this on this way, for example you are baking and you have cutter to create heart and star shaped cookies. And one time your friend want a car shape cookies but you don't have cutter for that, so you will create a custom cutter (which in swift this is the custom types).

If regular types or objects can't suffice your requirement, custom types are there to help,.