[fpc-pascal] 2.1.1 new protected

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 8/11/06, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
> It seems normal to me that it is not just the current instance.  You KNOW this
> method is there, in a descendent, so it seems logical that you know that it
> exists for another instance as well.

Coming from a Delphi background, I disagree here.  As I understood the
Delphi docs, protected methods are only visible in the current
instance (decendant), and not instances passed in as parameters.

Reading the docs again, I am not sure what happens when both those
classes appear in the same unit.  This then becomes like the "friend"
classes used in C++ and C# and might be allowed in such a case...
Quite confusing... :-)

Here is a snippet of the Kylix 3 docs:

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Regards,
  - Graeme -

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