http://www.eiffelroom.org/glossary/effective Comments for "effective" en http://www.eiffelroom.org/glossary/effective <p>The opposite of <em>deferred</em>.</p> <p>A feature is <em>effective</em> if it has an implementation in the current class. A class is <em>effective</em> if none of its features are deferred, and if the class is not declared deferred. An effective class must have a creation routine.</p> <p><em>Effective</em> is equivalent to what some other languages call <em>concrete</em>.</p> http://www.eiffelroom.org/glossary/effective#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:08:40 -0700 peter_gummer 134 at http://www.eiffelroom.org