Carl Mäsak wrote: > Carl (>>), Moritz (>): >>> <masak> um, so 'protected' is when the deriving classes can see the >>> attribute? >>> <jonalv> yup >>> <masak> that's what 'private' means in Perl 6. >> >> That's wrong. Perl 6's "private" is like Java's "private" - subclasses >> can't see it. >> It's just Rakudo being leaky at the moment, not a fallacy of the Perl 6 >> language. (Yes, we have failing tests for this; no, we don't run them at >> the moment). > > That is indeed reassuring. Thank you. > > ...So, how come Perl 6 doesn't have a 'protected' access level? :)
Exactly for the reasons you brought up against 'protected' as a default: in encourages people to inherit from a class just to bypass some of the public API. Cheers, Moritz
