See define-local-member-name. Robby
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm playing around with the object-oriented subset of Racket, and have a > couple of questions. > > Ideally, I'd like to equip a class with a field that is visible only to it > and its subclasses. As far as I can tell, though, this isn't possible. It > seems that I have to make a choice between a completely private field > visible only to the class (by just using "define") or making a completely > public field (by using "field"). Correct? > > Now, let's say I make the field public. > > In the subclass, how do I change the default value of field? > > For example, in the superclass, I might have > (field [a 300]) > > but in the subclass, I want to do something like > (inherit-field [a 200]) > > However, as far as I can tell, the syntax doesn't support anything other > than > (inherit-field a) > > Thanks, > > Mark > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users