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Gavin King wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Marius Bogoevici <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mariusb@redhat.com"><mariusb@redhat.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Actually, we could just ignore the method (as if it wasn't defined at all)
if it is abstract
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The problem is that the decorator class can call itself. It's much
better if that results in meaningful behavior than a runtime
exception.
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Ok, that makes sense. So, just to merge this with what you said on the
other e-mail thread: we only allow methods that are matching methods on
the base class to be abstract, case in which we assume that:<br>
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abstract void doSomething();<br>
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is equivalent to<br>
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void doSomething()<br>
{<br>
delegate.doSomething();<br>
}<br>
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