Blog Archive for monika_krug during January 2005
In my last blog entry I wrote about a substitute for a "protected-private" keyword that would allow inheritance, but not package access to the variable. I introduced around advice, binding variables to the target and arguments of a method call, and the keywords set(VariablePattern) and within(ClassPattern).
Another feature that was requested in the Mustang forum and is unlikely to see the light...
One of the features requested in the J2SE 6.0 (Mustang) forum was a modifier that would allow a member variable to be inherited as if it were protected, but not to be accessed by the other classes from the package. This would be useful when a protected member variable must always be accessed by its getter and setter, because these have side-effects, and one wants to avoid accidentally accessing...
