Members and methods

Below are some keywords you can apply to various types of members and methods. You are required to specify an access qualifier for each member except creators and destructors (for which it's implied).

Keyword	What it can be applied to	Meaning
private	Any member or method except static constructors and creators	The member or method isn't accessible outside this class—even to derived classes.
protected	Any member or method except static constructors and creators	The member or method isn't accessible outside this except for classes derived from this class.
public	Any member or method except static constructors and creators	The member or method is accessible from any code anywhere.
virtual	Any method or property except constructors and creators	Derived classes can override this method or property.
override	Any method or property declared as virtual in the base class	Use this to override the base class method or property.
new	Anything other than constructors and creators that would hide a member in the base class	The parser should consider anything hiding something in the base class an error unless the override (virtual items only) or new keywords are present.
abstract	Any method or property except constructors and creators	This class doesn't implement this method or property and must be implemented by derived classes that aren't abstract
const	Any var that's a reference type	Creates a variable where the reference can be changed, but the instance can't
const	Any immutable data member that isn't a var (use const instead of var)	Creates a named constant that really only exists during compilation.
const	Any method or property get accessor	Indicates the method or property get accessor won't change self.
readonly	Any data member	Prevents changes once initialized. With reference types, this affects the reference and not what the reference is pointing to. If you want both be be readonly, use readonly and const.

Complex statements as methods

Any type of procedure, including commands, functions, and complex statements can be methods. Below is a foreach written as a method:

class MyClass
  public statement foreach var out index%
    ' step through the instances and call **instructions** for each one

You'd call it with this:

MyClass instance = new MyClass

instance.foreach var index%
  ' Do something with it

Any qualifier can be applied to a complex statement method. Complex statements can be methods inside interfaces too.