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howto overload with a NOP (empty statement)

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Sat Jan 6 05:36:27 EST 2007 
Stef Mientki wrote:
> How should I overload / disable a method ?
> In the example below I have defined the class "Power_Supply", derived 
> from baseclass "device".
> The baseclass has a method "execute", which will be implemented in most 
> derived classes, but not in all.
> Now apparently it's not allowed to overload a method with an empty 
> statement.
> I could write a nonsense dummy statement, like "A= 3", but isn't there 
> another way ?

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