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Overriding Methods and Properties

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When you use inheritance with a class, you can change how the parent class methods and properties behave by overriding. When you override a method, an instance will behave differently than its parent instance even though the same method name is used as the function call.

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Campbell, M. (2014). Overriding Methods and Properties. In: Swift Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0439-9_40

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