[racket] How to use abstract classes?

I guess the easiest thing is just to not call 'new' with that as an
argument. If you were worried that someone might do that anyways, then
you could do something like this:

(class object%
  (define/public (die) (error 'myclass "do not instantiate me"))
  (super-new))

and insist that subclasses override the 'die' method to do nothing.

If you were doing this a lot, you could abstract this pattern into a macro.

hth,
Robby

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Alexander Kasiukov
<kasiuka at sunysuffolk.edu> wrote:
> Dear Racket users,
>
> What is the best way to make a class in Racket abstract? I would like to
> have a class which
>
>    never gets instantiated
>    implements certain methods common to all of its children
>    needs to call some of the methods implemented in the children.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Alex
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