Super

introduction to the super keyword and its importance in classes that inherit from a parent class

Calling super in a constructor should happen before accessing this. As a rule of thumb:

Call super as the first thing in a constructor of a class defined with extends.

If you fail to call super, an error will be thrown. If you don’t define a constructor in a class defined with extends, one will automatically be created for you, calling super with the argument list of the constructor.

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