forum > Inconsistency with Private Access

• ryan May 10 at 22:35

  I found this odd little inconsistency while trying to access the private field/method of a object that shares my objects base class.

  Here's the code:
  

  class Base
  {
      private function foo():Void
      {
      }
  }
  
  class Foo extends Base
  {
      public function doSomething(bar:Bar):Void
      {
          // Can't call
          bar.foo();
      }
  }
  
  class Bar extends Base
  {
  }
  

  So as you can see both of my classes share a common base class. However, I am not able to call a method they both have access to. The code won't compile.

  However, if I make the argument a Base object like so:
  

  public function doSomething(bar:Base):Void
  {
      bar.foo();
  }

  It works just fine and compiles.

  A strange inconsistency that's going to cause annoying things like:
  

  public function doSomething(bar:Bar):Void
  {
      // Do a whole bunch of useful things with bar as a Bar
  
      // Forced to convert bar to a Base
      cast(bar, Base).foo();
  }

  I hope this gets look at and fixed soon.
  Thanks.

• jan May 11 at 01:22

  I hope this gets look at and fixed soon.

  
  The best place to report issues or ask technical questions is on our very active google group/forum:

  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/haxelang

  which Justin also nicely embedded in this forum:
  http://haxe.org/forum/thread/3665

  You can check the community page for other places where you can ask help or meet 'haxe-people':
  http://haxe.org/com

  Kind regards,

  Jan

  PS: This forum was mainly created for people that were uncomfortable or not familar or with a mailing list (which we used before me moved to the google group/forum.)
  http://lists.motion-twin.com/mailman/listinfo/haxe (it is closed now)

• Justin L Mills May 11 at 11:13

  Looks like a bug, private is accessible with Reflection but should not be in the way you illustrate. Please file bugs here:

  http://code.google.com/p/haxe/issues/list

• jan May 11 at 12:26

  He already did. :)
  http://code.google.com/p/haxe/issues/detail?id=831

  Jan

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