Abstract functions with bodies

Ary Manzana ary at esperanto.org.ar
Mon Mar 19 03:49:38 PDT 2007


Tom escribió:
> Ary Manzana escribió:
>> While porting DMD code to Java I noticed that error reporting for 
>> abstract functions with bodies is disables. The following code gives 
>> no errors:
>>
>> class X {
>>
>>     abstract int bla() {
>>         return 1;
>>     }
>>
>> }
>>
>> Why is the error reporting silenced for this (in 
>> FuncDeclaration::semantic )?
>>
>> Ary
> 
> Right from the docs (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/attribute.html#abstract):
> 
> "Functions declared as abstract can still have function bodies. This is 
> so that even though they must be overridden, they can still provide 
> 'base class functionality.'"
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Tom;

I never thought of that, but it pretty useful. Great! :-)

Thanks,
Ary



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