Why Choose Struct Over Class?

Question

Playing around with Swift, coming from a Java background, why would you want to choose a Struct instead of a Class? Seems like they are the same thing, with a Struct offeri

Answer 1

• Structure and class are user defied data types

• By default, structure is a public whereas class is private

• Class implements the principal of encapsulation

• Objects of a class are created on the heap memory

• Class is used for re usability whereas structure is used for grouping the data in the same structure

• Structure data members cannot be initialized directly but they can be assigned by the outside the structure

• Class data members can be initialized directly by the parameter less constructor and assigned by the parameterized constructor