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		Why TODO might be better than an Abstract Base Class (github.com/dabeaz)
		6 points by beshrkayali on Sept 1, 2021 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

xnormal on Sept 2, 2021 [–]

Nice, but there are already some de-facto standards for this. In Python I use “raise NotImplementedError”. Many IDEs and static analyzers catch TODO/FIXME in comments which works for all languages.

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