Your understanding is correct. In the email description it didn't assign the value to super.data.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Amy Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 5:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Explain "override public function" --- In [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Alex Harui <aha...@...> wrote: > > If your override is exactly as you posted: > override public function set data(value:Object):void { } > > then the override never passed the value to the base class implementation so the value wasn't stored and the debugger will read from the "get data()" function and show you a null. > > In the base class the setter does this: > > _data = value; > > And the getter does this: > > return _data; > > where _data is defined as: > > private var _data:Object; I'm pretty sure the function he posted included super.data=value; Wouldn't that pass the value to the base class implementation? Just making sure I'm not confused and he doesn't get unnecessarily confused on this. Thanks; Amy
