Token as an abstract base class?

2003-03-13 Thread Jim Kleckner
Token seems like an excellent candidate to be an abstract base class since the documentation states that it should not be instantiated. Any reason to not do that? Jim Posted to the ptolemy-hackers mailing list.

Re: Token as an abstract base class?

2003-03-13 Thread Stephen Andrew Neuendorffer
Originally, token was intended to be used as a token to represent a pure event i.e. one without a value. At the same time it was a base class for all the other token classes. We have since made an EventToken class to represent pure events. It remains public for some level of backward