Swift architectures use much less inheritance (and class types) in general than 
equivalent c++ architectures. personally i have never been in a situation where 
i didn’t need a pure abstract method that was better declared as a protocol 
requirement.

> On Nov 2, 2017, at 2:45 PM, C. Keith Ray via swift-evolution 
> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
> 
> How many "subclass must override" assertions or comments in base class 
> methods do we need to see, to want to add "abstract" to the Swift language? 
> 5? 50? 500?
> 
> It's a not uncommon idiom in Objective-C.
> 
> I'm about to port a substantial amount of C++ code to swift, and compiler 
> help to enforce abstract classes would be very useful.
> 
> 
> --
> C. Keith Ray
> Senior Software Engineer / Trainer / Agile Coach
> * http://www.thirdfoundationsw.com/keith_ray_resume_2014_long.pdf
> 
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