Re: Scope/Protection Question

[Joe Strout <joe@inspiringapps.com>]

William Squires wrote:

> A protected property can be accessed via code in IT'S instance, or in 
> code in a subclass method (which would refer to its inherited property), 
> but not in other code.
That appears to be a fair description of how RB's compiler currently 
works, but there is no reason that it SHOULD work that way.
> That is, in the code in Class2, you can refer to Property1 without an 
> accessor, but you'll be referring to the value of Property1 associated 
> with the instance of Class2 that you created with New. A different 
> instance of Class2 cannot access the Property1 in the first instance 
> without an accessor!!
And this isn't even true, since you can trivially access the other 
object's Property1 simply by typecasting it to a Class1.
Best,
- Joe

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Joe Strout
Inspiring Applications, Inc.
http://www.InspiringApps.com


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