From: Nat Pryce <nat.pryce@...13media.com>
Date: 2002-03-14T05:51:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Method type 'abstract' (Module#abstract)

From: "Kent Dahl" <kentda@stud.ntnu.no>
> Phil Tomson wrote:
> > class MyClass
> >   abstract :some_method
> > end
> >
> > mc = MyClass.new
>
> Ugh! Some Java/C++ idiom just reared its head in the back of my skull
> when seeing this. Since MyClass is abstract, I would expect the call to
> new to freak too. (Fail early)

No it shouldn't.  Ruby lets you define singleton methods on objects. You
might want to instantiate an instance of MyClass and define some_method for
that one instance.  That instance is now no longer abstract.

Cheers,
            Nat.