• Ary Manzana <ary esperanto.org.ar> Mar 18 2007
• Tom <tom nospam.com> Mar 18 2007
• Ary Manzana <ary esperanto.org.ar> Mar 19 2007

Ary Manzana <ary esperanto.org.ar> writes:

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

Tom <tom nospam.com> writes:

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;

Ary Manzana <ary esperanto.org.ar> writes:

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