<div dir="ltr">You can use `self` (and, to initialize, `self.init`) inside a class function to refer to the class. A riff on your example here: <a href="http://swiftstub.com/914697984/">http://swiftstub.com/914697984/</a><div><br></div><div>Stephen</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 6:56 AM, James Campbell via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Would be great to construct the current class in a class function like so<div><br></div><div>class func makeMeCheese() -> Self</div><div>{</div><div> return Self(type: .Cheddar);</div><div>}<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:16px;line-height:19.2px"></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> Wizard</span><br></div><div><a href="mailto:james@supmenow.com" target="_blank">james@supmenow.com</a></div><div><a href="tel:%2B44%207523%20279%20698" value="+447523279698" target="_blank">+44 7523 279 698</a></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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