NAME Attribute::Abstract - implementing abstract methods with attributes SYNOPSIS package SomeObj; use Attribute::Abstract; sub new { ... } sub write : Abstract; DESCRIPTION Declaring a subroutine to be abstract using this attribute causes a call to it to die with a suitable exception. Subclasses are expected to implement the abstract method. Using the attribute makes it visually distinctive that a method is abstract, as opposed to declaring it without any attribute or method body, or providing a method body that might make it look as though it was implemented after all. BUGS None known so far. If you find any bugs or oddities, please do inform the author. AUTHOR Marcel Grünauer, COPYRIGHT Copyright 2001 Marcel Grünauer. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO perl(1).