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iOS Object-Oriented Swift Class Inheritance Overriding Properties

Johnny Nguyen
Johnny Nguyen
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Posted by Johnny Nguyen
Johnny Nguyen
3,875 Points

If in subclass, I don't have an initializer method, does it affect anything at all??

In this video, SuperEnemy is subclass of Enemy. So before he creates an initializer, when he write the instance for SuperEnemy, it still works fine

1 Answer

Sathvik Koneru
Sathvik Koneru
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Sathvik Koneru
Sathvik Koneru
6,314 Points

This is what is called inheritance. When you call a sub-class, it can still inherit the super-class values and initializers. For more reading on this check out the Apple Developer Guide: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/Inheritance.html