Private: (Access Control)

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Private: (Access Control)
 
Specifies private member access control in a Type or Class

Syntax

Type typename
Private:
member declarations
End Type

Parameters

typename
name of the Type or Class
member declarations
declarations for fields, functions, or enumerations

Description

Private: indicates that member declarations following it have private access. Private members are accessible only from inside a member function for the Type or Class.

member declarations following Private: are private until a different access control specifier is given, like Public: or Protected:.

Members in a Type declaration are Public: by default if no member access control specifier is given.

Example

Type testing
  number As Integer
  Private:
    nome As String
  Declare Sub setNome( ByRef newnome As String )
End Type

Sub testing.setnome( ByRef newnome As String )
  '' This is OK. We're inside a member function for the type
  this.nome = newnome
End Sub

Dim As testing myVariable

'' This is OK, number is public
myVariable.number = 69

'' this would generate a compile error 
'' - nome is private and we're trying to access it outside any of this TYPE's member functions 
'' myVariable.nome = "FreeBASIC"


Dialect Differences

  • Available only in the -lang fb dialect.

Differences from QB

  • New to FreeBASIC

See also