Re: [Oorexx-users] [ooRexx] ::CLASS PRIVATE in compiled code

[J. L. T. <jlt...@ce...>]

On 2013-05-16 10:51:18 Mark Miesfeld wrote:
> Staffan,
>
> You are misunderstanding here.
>
> Class B is private, it is not seen in any other file than b.cls.  If you
> require the b.cls file, that's fine.  But, any other file that requires
> b.cls will only see the public stuff in b.cls.  The other file will not see
> anything private in b.cls
>
> file c.rex:
> > a=.a~new
> >
> > ::REQUIRES ab.bin
> >
> > That IMHO should work, but it doesn't. I can see why c.rex should not be
> > able to call B but there is an error when A tries to call B.
> >
> > It's clear that I've misunderstood the expression "containing Rexx
> > program", maybe this could be clarified a bit.
>
> It seems pretty clear to me.  ;-)  How would you clarify it?
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
	It confused me, too.  The term "containing Rexx program" does not mean the 
same thing to me as "any other file".  I would not consider a file containing 
only class definitions as a program, but just a collection of code to be used 
by a program.  Such a file could not be executed on its own, so is not a 
program.
	Seems to me the rule should be talking about definitions in _files_ external 
to the program, since it appears to be file oriented, not scope oriented.

Leslie