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Michael Brown
Michael Brown
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Posted by Michael Brown
Michael Brown
12,406 Points

In the Tower & Enemy game made with Swift, what's the overarching purpose of making "Enemy" a class and not a struct?

I'm understanding the difference between the two different data types, but specifically in this project, I'm curious as to why didn't we just create all structs with "Tower", "Enemy", and "Point", or vice versa. Why didn't we just make them all classes?

I would like to assume that the reason why we made "Tower" and "Enemy" classes was because we planned on creating subclasses such as "SuperEnemy" to customize and inherit "Enemy" class' properties. However, I'd like to sure and maybe there are more reasons as well.

Thanks in advance and Happy learning for all!

1 Answer

Addison Francisco
Addison Francisco
9,561 Points
Addison Francisco
Addison Francisco
9,561 Points

Your assumption is correct. Since you can’t subclass a struct, you need to use a class for this example

Michael Brown
Michael Brown
12,406 Points
Michael Brown
Michael Brown
12,406 Points

Thanks Addison. Perhaps I should've waited until I got to the "Structs vs Classes" video before I asked my question. 😅