[fpc-pascal]Question on OOP programming...

[Ingmar Tulva]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Rainer Hantsch wrote:

> It is simple to overload a function from the client view by
> defining it "virtual". From outside access this is ok, but I must
> access this client version of KeyGen() from the parent!!!
> 
> Haw can I do that or something similar? I know that I can fix that with
> workarounds, but this is not my target. I want to keep the internal list
> of records "private" and to offer only methods for accessing it.

Either:
1. Make the internal list "protected" instead of "private" (you use
classes, do you?).
2. Pass the record from whitch you are extracting the key to KeyGen() as a
parameter.
3. I got something wrong (c:

Ingmar Tulva,
ingmar at zbi.ee