what is a cat

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A cat, in the context of the WWDC sessions, is used as an example in programming with Swift. Specifically, in the session titled "A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design," a cat class is used to illustrate concepts of object-oriented programming, such as inheritance and memory management. The cat class inherits from a superclass called PET, and methods on the superclass can be overridden by methods on the subclass. This example helps explain how Swift manages memory automatically for reference types using a feature called automatic reference counting.

For more details, you can refer to the session A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design at the timestamp 12:37.