pure-specifier on function-definition

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Ok, I’ve just learned something. A pure virtual function must be declared as follows:


class Abstract 
{
public:
   virtual void pure_virtual() = 0;
};

It may have a body, although it is illegal to include it at the point of declaration. This means that to have a body the pure virtual function must be defined outside the class. Note that even if it has a body, the function must still be overridden by any concrete classes derived from Abstract. They would just have an option to call Abstract::pure_virtual() explicitly if they need to.

The details are here.

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