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| Is there a way to make public or private methods or functions in types? To explain further I'm making a type to use across different project. There are some functions/methods included in the type that are not to be called from outside the type, so i'm looking for a way t make them Private to the type, and eventually hope an IDE like Blide (which is sweet) wouldnt show these functions/methods when someone's using the type |
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| Look in the help for Public and Private |
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| No. |
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| ...but there really should be. |
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| Should be, but there aren't, despite the past requests. |
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| At the moment, public - private are "pointless" ... they don't do anything to the compiled module ... the only thing private does is prevent that an entry for this method / function / field / local / global is added to the Interface (.i) file. So if you need a private method, feel free to do it by simply removing the entries from the .i files ... |
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| I'd like this too. All I've heard suggested is stick _ on the start of the private fields and function names so they look differnt :-( |
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| At the moment, public - private are "pointless" ... they don't do anything to the compiled module ... the only thing private does is prevent that an entry for this method / function / field / local / global is added to the Interface (.i) file. So if you need a private method, feel free to do it by simply removing the entries from the .i files ... Interface files aren't generated for code that isn't in a module. |
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| You are right, private removes it from module usable part completely. But still: removing its entry from .i will take care that others can't use it unless the know the exact naming etc to reconstruct the line ... |
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