Subclassing Objective-C classes in Swift and the perils of Initializers

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As a way to learn Swift I decided to have a play with Sprite Kit. One of the first things I did was to create a subclass of SKSpriteNode. This has a very handy initializer:init(imageNamed name: string) (in Swift)-(instanceType)initWithImageNamed:(NString*)name (in Objective-C)I then derived from thi

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My day job is mostly working in C++ with a bit of C#. I write a fair amount of command line based tools and really wish they could have a GUI front-end to them hence why I spend my spare time working with WPF.

I started a blog few years back but didn't do a lot with it. I've started describing some of the interesting programming things I come across on it. Please take a look.

Subclassing Objective-C classes in Swift and the perils of Initializers

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