Re: How can i force my derivers to call a base function
ManicQin wrote:
class base
{
public:
foo()
{ /do something - any thing!
goo();
}
protected:
virtual goo() = 0;
}
class derive : public base
{
protected:
goo()
{
//do something else...
}
}
int main()
{
derive a;
a.foo(); //first base.foo() will execute and then derive.goo()
return 0;
}
the problem is that this pattern (I think they call it Template
Method) is not IDIOT PROOF.
tomorrow a coder would come and change my code so he would'nt call my
base function. (infact it happened today in spite of all the comments
i left!) I'm just looking for a different way to implement this.
This is still too little information for us, we cannot assess whether the
overall design is flawed. Why is it necessary that the user calls your base
class method? Maybe your class derive should not even be derived from base if
you have such strange dependencies in your code.
Regards,
Stuart
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