Can't declare an abstract method private

Question

I want to do this, yet I can\'t. Here is my scenario and rational. I have an abstract class for test cases that has an abstract method called test(). The test() method is to

Answer 1

I want to do this, yet I can't

Changing this will require rewriting the compiler, which isn't likely.

You realize why this can never work, right? A subclass can't override a private method, yet, it's abstract which says they must. Catch-22.