On 12/8/06, TOndrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/8/06, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I still don't know why we can't decrease visibility in Free Pascal.
> Is there some internal language design that prevents it?
A class definition (or at least its parts visible from outside) can be
understood as a kind of contract. If you have a class TDog with a
public property Tail then, by definition, any TDog descendant
I understand your example and that makes sense, but would be handy in
certain cases to change it.
I'm not even sure if there is a language which allows demoting
visibility of inherited class members. It would seem odd to me. Just
my 2c, of course. ;-)
C++, C#, VB.Net are three I know of. I think Java also allows it.
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Graeme Geldenhuys
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