Anthony Walter wrote: > > In my opinion the warning should be removed, or at least able to be > suppress through a switch. I beginning to make the transition to cross
The compiler is 100% and I think it should actually raise an Error instead of a Warning. Your code is flawed. Object Pascal is quite clear regarding visibility rules. TObject has a Public constructor. You can only raise the visibility from there, not reduce visibility. Imagine how confusing it will be if you code was a library of some sorts and other developers had to use it. In a inherited class, you have public visibility to the constructor or some other method, and then suddenly in the descendant class the methods are hidden from the developer?? Not a good idea. You can try out the code and see what I mean. Even in Delphi you cannot reduce a methods visibility, only make it more visible. In your code you posted, you cannot hide the constructor (one of them will always be visible). And it will be like that for both Delphi and FPC no matter if you try and hide the constructor or not. The default TObject.Create constructor is *always* visible from Public onwards. But like Jonas said, in newer compiler versions you can hide compiler messages, but that doesn't change the flaw in your code. raise EAssertError.Create; is perfectly legal, and will by-pass whatever you intended in your CreateFromLine() constructor. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
