protocol SignedNumeric A type that can represent both positive and negative values. Inheritance Numeric Conforming Types FloatingPoint, SignedInteger The SignedNumeric protocol extends the operations defined by the Numeric protocol to include a value's additive inverse. Conforming to the SignedNumeric Protocol Because the SignedNumeric protocol provides default implementations of both of its required methods, you don't need to do anything beyond declaring conformance to the protocol and ensuring that the values of your type support negation. To customize your type's implementation, provide your own mutating negate() method. When the additive inverse of a value is unrepresentable in a conforming type, the operation should either trap or return an exceptional value. For example, using the negation operator (prefix -) with Int.min results in a runtime error. let x = Int.min let y = -x // Overflow error Instance Methods func negate() Required Replaces this value with its additive inverse. The following example uses the negate() method to negate the value of an integer x: var x = 21 x.negate() // x == -21 The resulting value must be representable within the value's type. In particular, negating a signed, fixed-width integer type's minimum results in a value that cannot be represented. var y = Int8.min y.negate() // Overflow error Declaration mutating func negate() Type Methods func -(operand: Self) -> Self Required Returns the additive inverse of the specified value. The negation operator (prefix -) returns the additive inverse of its argument. let x = 21 let y = -x // y == -21 The resulting value must be representable in the same type as the argument. In particular, negating a signed, fixed-width integer type's minimum results in a value that cannot be represented. let z = -Int8.min // Overflow error Declaration prefix static func -(operand: Self) -> Self