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From: phys169@canterbury.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: TP 6.0
Message-ID: <1990Oct4.162148.9314@canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 4 Oct 90 05:59:04 GMT
References: <1990Sep26.024531.174@water.waterloo.edu> <26974@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
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In article <26974@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, streich@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Mark Streich) writes:
> 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?