Encapsulation

Introduction

There are three levels of encapsulation for class and struct members:

• Public members can be accessed from anywhere. It is the default encapsulation level.

• Protected members can only be accessed by the base class and the derived ones or by class/struct extensions. Code existing in the same source file have acces to Protected members too.

• Private members can only be accessed by the base class. Code existing in the same source file have acces to Private members too.

There is also the Internal privacy level, used to declare module internal accessibility.

Example:

Class Foo
    ' public by default
    Field i:Int

    Protected

    Field someProtectedThing:Int

    Method doSomething()
        Print "Doing something"
    End

    Private

    Field _somePrivateThing:String
End