[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Forum Post: Private Overridable?

[Lieven De Foor]

Hi, There is a way to make a protected method callable from a derived class but overridable by making it FINAL. Is there a way to do the opposite? I.e. make a method overridable, but not callable by a derived class. An example could be a protected abstract method that only the base class should call in a specific order or scenario. The derived class is allowed or obliged to provide an implementation, but should never directly call the method. It seems something like this is possible in c++ using "private virtual". I was wondering if any construct in ABL could mimic this... See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/414746/override-but-dont-call and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29412477/java-method-only-callable-by-superclass

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