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What does the "abstract" keyword mean in front of a method? A class?
Abstract keyword declares either a method or a class. If a method has a abstract keyword in front of it, it is called abstract method.Abstract method has no body. It has only arguments and return type. Abstract methods act as placeholder methods that are implemented in the subclasses. Abstract classes can't be instantiated.If a class is declared as abstract,no objects of that class can be created.If a class contains any abstract method it must be declared as abstract.



  
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February 09, 2006 03:57:49   
vmshenoy Member Since: October 2005   Contribution: 508    

RE: What does the "abstract" keyword mean in front of ...
Abstract simply means that this method has no definition.It simply has retrun type i.e it is declared but not defined.
 
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December 11, 2006 13:03:50   
alpa        

RE: What does the "abstract" keyword mean in front of ...

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Abstract classes can be subclassed and their objects can be created. Implementations can vary for the abstract methods by the subclasses.


 
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