Re: Template method pattern in Java ???

From: Robert C. Martin (unclebob_at_objectmentor.com)
Date: 02/17/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 22:30:16 -0600

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:49:52 +0100, David Roden
<d.roden@cytainment.de> wrote:

>Robert C. Martin wrote:
>
>> [...] I like being able to declare a private pure
>> virtual function. What is says to me is that nobody but the base
>> should call it.
>
>Then why do you want to declare it in an interface?

Not an interface, an abstract class.

class Application {
  public:
    void Run() {
      Init();
      while (!done)
        Idle();
      Cleanup();
    }

  protected:
   bool done;

  private:
    virtual void Init() = 0;
    virtual void Idle() = 0;
    virtual void Cleanup() = 0;
};

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