[swift-evolution] Abstract methods

Gwendal Roué gwendal.roue at gmail.com
Fri Nov 3 00:07:43 CDT 2017


> Le 3 nov. 2017 à 04:29, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> a écrit :
> 
> I think we should beef up protocols a little bit so that they can serve the role of abstract classes. 

That would be great.

Back in the day, the proposal SE-0026 "Abstract classes and methods" was deferred, with the following rationale: https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution-announce/2016-March/000056.html

This rationale is great because it lists a few use cases for abstract class that protocols can't mimic today.

Gwendal



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