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Learn Swift by Building Applications

You're reading from   Learn Swift by Building Applications Explore Swift programming through iOS app development

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463920
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Giordano Scalzo Giordano Scalzo
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Emil Atanasov Emil Atanasov
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Inheritance

Inheritance is a mechanism that helps developers through the process of implementing complex hierarchical data structures. All inherited features become part of the new class. To put it simply, a class can inherit properties and methods from another class. The class which is inherited is called a parent class or super class. The new class which inherits another class is called a child class.

The inheritance is applicable to classes only.

Each class which inherits from another class can provide a specific implementation of the inherited features. All other functions, properties, subscripts, and so on, can be accessed from the child class.

Base class

Every class which doesn't have a super class is called a base...

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