<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">How many "subclass must override" assertions or comments in base class methods do we need to see, to want to add "abstract" to the Swift language? 5? 50? 500?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It's a not uncommon idiom in Objective-C.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm about to port a substantial amount of C++ code to swift, and compiler help to enforce abstract classes would be very useful.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
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