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Eric Milles reassigned GROOVY-8859:
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Assignee: Eric Milles
> traits allow access to private fields and static methods but not instance
> methods
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>
> Key: GROOVY-8859
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8859
> Project: Groovy
> Issue Type: Question
> Components: Compiler
> Reporter: Eric Milles
> Assignee: Eric Milles
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: trait, traits
>
> It seems that private in a trait is akin to protected in a class. For
> example a class that implements a trait may access private fields (through
> namespace syntax) and properties and call private static methods. And it may
> use Type.super.method() to disambiguate methods if necessary. *Why, however,
> can a class that implements a trait not call private instance methods?* This
> is not really covered in the language specification.
> {code:groovy}
> trait T {
> private void privit() {
> println 'private'
> }
> public void publik() {
> println 'public'
> }
> }
> class C implements T {
> def m() {
> publik()
> privit()
> }
> }
> new C().m()
> {code}
> This fails with missing method. But if static modifier is added to privit,
> it succeeds.
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