Question

I’ve never really been poised with this question: But would it be a terrible crime to call base.SomeMethod() conditionally in an overridden method?

Example as in:

protected override void SomeMethod()
{ 
     if( condition > 0 ) 
        base.SuperMethod(); 
}

I’m aware that this may be considered bad practice but I’ve actually never read such a claim so far.

Answer 1

I can’t think of a reason why this would be bad off the top of my head.

It’d be a lot worse to override the base method and copy the base method’s functionality to conditionally call instead of just calling the base method.