[335] in java-interest
Re: confusion over which method is invoked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Drach)
Thu Jun 15 12:01:58 1995
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 08:34:34 -0800 (PDT)
From: Steve Drach <Steve.Drach@Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: Steve Drach <Steve.Drach@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Thanks to all of you for clearing this up for me. Now that I know "all
methods
are virtual methods", it might be helpful to state this in the documentation
somewhere.
I had also mistakenly assumed that abstract == virtual. However I now see
that "abstract methods provide a means...to define a protocol..." But, since
all methods are virtual methods, what real purpose does an abstract method (in
a class, not an interface) serve? Is it there just to prevent instantiation
of the class containing the abstract method?
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