[fpc-pascal] 2.1.1 new protected

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Mon Aug 14 10:57:21 CEST 2006


Marco van de Voort wrote:
>> It is ugly, produces warnings and is possibly forbidden in FPC 2.1.1 (I don't 
>> know). A more elegant solution would be to have something like 'friend units' 
>> where protected class members are visible:
> 
> I wonder what the use of making a private/public/protected distinction is in
> the first place, if USES'ing units can override it at will.

Little :) Borland realized this as well and added the strict private/protected ...



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