[Added] A way to check if a class is abstract.

[Accensus]

Let's take Hideous Destructor for example. If I do the following:

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class SpecialAmmoBase : HDAmmo abstract
{ }


I risk a VM abort upon spawning the actor because the mod's backpack generates its contents by iterating AllActorClasses. SpecialAmmoBase passes all the checks but there's no way to avoid it without hardcoding exceptions for that class. Needless to say, that's a bad solution when addons are involved.

Checking if a class is abstract would let the backpack generation code just skip that class and not try to spawn it.

[Player701]

Attempting to spawn an abstract class will not trigger a VM abort; instead, a warning message will be logged to the console. However, I agree that it would be useful to have a way to check if a class is abstract. I imagine it'd work like GetClassName, e.g.

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class<Actor> cls = 'ZombieMan';
bool isAbstract = cls.IsAbstractClass();

upd: Since this check wouldn't make sense outside of a class pointer context anyway, let's call it just IsAbstract. PR here.

[Accensus]

I appreciate the PR. I see it has been merged so this can be closed now. Thank you.