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When you want to code a new class that shares most of the properties and methods of another class, you can use inheritance. A class that is inherited from another class takes on all the properties and methods of the superclass.

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Campbell, M. (2013). Inheritance. In: Objective-C Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6488-0_18

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