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Eliot Murton
7,315 PointsIn Swift, what is the difference between a Base Class and a Super Class?
In Swift, what is the difference between a Base Class and a Super Class? They both seem to me to be the same thing but I don't think this is correct.
2 Answers
nicoschuele
3,713 PointsBase class and Super class are synonyms and used interchangeably.
Eliot Murton
7,315 PointsI thought that was the case and could find nothing to the contrary except one of the questions in the code challenge said they were not. I guess it was just a badly worded challenge question.
nicoschuele
3,713 PointsActually, we can nitpick on this and say that a base class is a class not inheriting from any other and whose none inherits from while a super class has at least one child. In practice, I've never seen any coder make a difference.