Do Swift inner classes have access to self of outer class?

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AFAIK, you can’t access the outer class out-of-the-box.

But what you can do is:

class Outer {

    let value = ""
    var inner = Inner()

    class Inner {

        weak var parent: Outer! = nil

        func foo() {
            let bar = parent.value
        }

    }

    init() {
        inner.parent = self
    }

}

Or:

class Outer {

    class Inner {

        unowned let parent: Outer

        init(parent: Outer) {
            self.parent = parent
        }

    }

    let value = ""
    var inner: Inner! = nil

    init() {
        inner = Inner(parent: self)
    }

}

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