Re: Subclassing Question

[Will Leshner <leshner at ljug dot com>]

On Thursday, August 22, 2002, at 07:32 AM, Randall Meadows wrote:

> <RB-newbie/OO-novice>
> Would it not be better form to throw and exception in this case, 
> instead of returning nil?  In my mind, there is a subtly different, 
> but important, distinction between the two.
> </>
Throwing an exception is an interesting idea. My "gut" tells me no, but 
I don't know why. It would certainly solve the problem.
> Or, perhaps better yet, is there an RB equivalent of "pure virtual"?
No it doesn't. But it would be great if it did.