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From: Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Using main from abstract class in concrete class
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 10:37:30 -0400
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On 8/13/2017 10:32 AM, Eric Sosman wrote:
> [...]
> What *won't* work is to tell the JVM to run
> the main() method of a subclass that doesn't actually have one, and
> have the JVM somehow know to run Abstract::main in its place.

     ... for suitable values of "*won't*", such as (for example)
"WILL CERTAINLY".

     Sorry about that.

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