http://www.eiffelroom.org/glossary/deferred Comments for "deferred" en http://www.eiffelroom.org/glossary/deferred <p>The opposite of <em>effective</em>.</p> <p>A feature is <em>deferred</em> if it has no implementation; the implementation is to be provided by a descendant class. A class is <em>deferred</em> if any of its features are deferred; but even if none are deferred, the class may be declared deferred. A deferred class cannot be instantiated.</p> <p><em>Deferred</em> is equivalent to what some other languages call <em>abstract</em>.</p> http://www.eiffelroom.org/glossary/deferred#comments Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:08:21 -0800 peter_gummer 83 at http://www.eiffelroom.org