> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron M. Renn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> I personally put the abstract modifier in. I don't like to rely
> on "implicit" declarations. (The only time I like to take advantage
> of that is for variable initial values, but the damn compiler
> complains about it!).
Do you mean the compiler complains about local variables
in a method not being initialized? If so that is because
the language spec doesn't require local vars to be
initialized (I don't know if it explicitly states that they
won't be - but that was the intent of the language designers).
..darcy
