Am I using NVI?
In The C++ Programming Language 3rd ed. by Stroustrup, p.314 it explains
the use of pure virtual interfaces.
In C++ Coding Standards by Sutter & Alexandrescu it says:
Item 39: Consider making virtual functions nonpublic, and public
functions nonvirtual.
Usually I code something like this:
class Module
{
public:
virtual ~Module() {}
virtual void doThis() = 0;
virtual void doThat() = 0;
};
class BasicModule : public Module
{
public:
virtual void doThis() { /* ... */ }
virtual void doThat() { /* ... */ }
};
class SpecialModule : public BasicModule
{
public:
virtual void doThat() { /* ... */ }
};
NVI seems to be widely used and I just want to see if I need to abandon
my coding style for NVI.
If I consistently use BasicModule through out my application to define
the behavior, then what's the difference between my approach and NVI
except that I let subclasses override also the interface?
Thanks,
Daniel
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