On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 7:03 PM, DJ Delorie <d...@redhat.com> wrote: > Maybe you and I have completely different ideas about how the whole > class heirarchy works. I'm not a firm believer that the base-most > class should be an empty shell of a class that does nothing but > provide a placeholder for umpteen direct-but-leaf derived classes.
I would recommend against the idea that the root class of a hierarchy shall be empty -- except if it is an interface, e.g. an abstract class.
