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Is it possible to implement inheritance for a data structure?

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In iOS (Swift), structures (struct) do not support classical inheritance like classes. That is, you cannot create a structure that inherits properties and methods from another structure.

However, structures can conform to protocols, which allows them to have common interfaces and behaviors. This is often used instead of inheritance to achieve polymorphism.

Example:

protocol Drawable {
    func draw()
}

struct Circle: Drawable {
    func draw() {
        print("Drawing a circle")
    }
}

struct Square: Drawable {
    func draw() {
        print("Drawing a square")
    }
}

Thus, inheritance for structures is not directly possible, but protocols can be used for shared functionality.

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