[fpc-pascal] What is the difference between the declarations at the beginning of a class and those declared in the public section?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 6 Nov 2011, Jonas Maebe wrote:

>
> On 06 Nov 2011, at 15:34, Frank Church wrote:
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>> What is the difference between field declarations at the beginning of a
>> class and those declared in the public section?
>
> There is no "the" public section. You can declare as many public (and private, and ...) sections as you want.
>
>> They are all visible aren't they, what is the conceptual difference between
>> them?
>
> None. The default visibility of fields in a class declaration is "public".

Unless the class was compiled with {$M+} or is a descendant of such a class, 
then it is Published.

Michael.