Andrew Haley wrote:
> Out of interest (and please forgive me if this has already been
> discussed at length) why have dummy methods at all?  Wouldn't it be
> better to have a compile time failure for unimplemented methods?

I think so, but sometimes (e.g. when implementing interfaces or
extending abstract classes), you're required to provide the methods, but
I agree that not having the unimplemented method is the cleanest
solution.

Regards,
Jeroen


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