builder-methods-empty-by-default

Status: IN

Builder's build methods should be empty (no-op) by default rather than pure virtual, so that ConcreteBuilder subclasses need only override the operations they care about.

Source: entries/2026/06/17/gof-oo-chunk-8.md

Depended on by

• builder-maximally-decoupled-from-product
• empty-default-override-architecture-spans-inheritance-patterns
• noop-default-meta-pattern-across-patterns

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