David Emerson wrote:
b. What does "strict private" mean, as opposed to private without strict? (My best guess is that it would be accessible only within the methods+properties of that class within the unit, as opposed to being available anywhere in the same unit where the class is declared...???)
In Delphi what you have described is exactly what strict private gives you.
c. What is the purpose of a class method? It would seem to me that methods should do the same thing whether they are class methods or not. Traditional variables change from instance to instance, but methods do not vary between instances, as far as I know-- right?
Class methods allow you to call the method without instantiating the class first. For example, Result := TMyClass.MyClassFunction;
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