On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 01:56, Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaert...@netcologne.de> wrote: >> 4) If it has setter named "SetP", do the equivalent of "inherited >> SetP". > > Why?
Because this surprises developers and leads to bugs. See the issue http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13418 (linked from the discussed one) for a recent example. > "inherited P" should look up P in the ancestor class. > The setter of P belongs to the internal implementation of > the class. If you want to access the inherited setter, call it with > inherited SetP. Alternative solution would be to issue a warning if TInherited.SetP contains "inherited P := V" and SetP is virtual. -- Alexander S. Klenin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
