>Basically yes. However, I wouldn't put any code in the abstract class. If I'd do that, I wouldn't call it an abstract class. < s >
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Why... wouldn't you also abstract the common functionality also? For example, you may have an abstract class called People from which you create concretes of Employees, Customers, Contacts... Couldn't they all need a method like Shave() which you could implment in the Abstract?

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