Objective-c: Questions about self = [super init]

Question

I have seen self = [super init] in init methods. I don\'t understand why. Wouldn\'t [super init] return the superclass? And if we point

Answer 1

[super init] is the same as [self superclass_variant_of_init]

If you want to send a message to superclass, there is another approach (without using runtime library):

[[self superclass] init];