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From: streich@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Mark Streich)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Wish List for TP 6.0
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Date: 26 Sep 90 15:20:44 GMT
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I want the ability to have public read-only fields in my objects so I
don't have to create functions for every field when I want to let 
someone access the value of a field, but not modify it.

example:

  rootclass = object
    employee_num : string; readonly;
  end;

  var anobj : rootclass;

legal:
  if anobj.employee_num = ... then

illegal:
  anobj.employee_num := ... ;

Is this what people mean by "private" fields?