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iOS Build an Interactive Story App with Swift 2 Creating the User Interface Programmatically Page Controllers

Paul M
Paul M
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Posted by Paul M
Paul M
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What does the keyword super do in front of the init?

I was wondering about the tutorial and what the super did to the init and what would happen if the super was not there.

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Anthony Mikhail
Anthony Mikhail
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Anthony Mikhail
Anthony Mikhail
9,942 Points

The super keyword notifies the compiler to run the initializer of the super class, so you don't need to rewrite the original initializer implementation.