On 8 dec 2006, at 10:55, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
I still don't know why we can't decrease visibility in Free Pascal.
Is there some internal language design that prevents it?
At least Borland explicitly says you cannot do that:
http://info.borland.com/techpubs/delphi/delphi5/oplg/classes.html
"You can increase the visibility of a member in a descendant class by
redeclaring it, but you cannot decrease its visibility. For example,
a protected property can be made public in a descendant, but not
private. Moreover, published members cannot become public in a
descendant class."
Jonas
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