Object::AbstractMethod

Section: ET++ method description (n)
Updated: automatically Fri Mar 1 10:54:57 1991
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NAME

Object::AbstractMethod - instance method

TEMPLATE

void AbstractMethod(char * methodName)

SPECIFIERS

public

DESCRIPTION

AbstractMethod is to be called in the body of an abstract method. Calling AbstractMethod results in a warning (see Error Handling, DoError), so the client eventually sees that he has forgot to override the calling method. As good programming practice, every abstract method should call it.
Note that the methodName should not be qualified, i.e the class name will be automatically prepended.
AbstractMethod is a standardized short-cut to trigger the error handler (see DoError). Using AbstractMethod makes the code more expressive.
See also method MayNotUse (and method Warning etc.). For non-regular classes, there is the function AbstractMethod (see "Error.[hC]") with the same purpose.

ARGUMENTS

char * methodName: the (unqualified) name of an abstract method

RETURN ARGUMENT

void

FILES

implementation:: Object.C

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