[fpc-devel] class abstract, class sealed implementation. please review.

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Mon Oct 19 21:31:45 CEST 2009


Marco van de Voort schrieb:
> In our previous episode, Florian Klaempfl said:
>>> This is exactly my point about sealed classes. When you design the
>>> product or class, you have NO way of know what will come in the
>>> future. So you need to stay flexible to change! Yet another OOP
>>> principal that "sealed" tries to prevent!
>> This might be true, but what's the difference with private etc.?
> 
> Private is typically used in nearly every class, sealed in exceptional
> cases. At best.

I meant regarding "flexibility". Declaring a member private makes things
also less flexible.



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