On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 23:10 -0400, Yu Feng wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 08:07 +0100, Jürg Billeter wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 20:36 -0400, Yu Feng wrote: > > > Dear list, > > > > > > Are friend classes available in VALA? If not, are there any particular > > > reason against it, and are there any alternatives for friend classes? > > > > There is no plan to support friend classes in Vala. The `internal' > > modifier is as close as it gets, it restricts access to the class/member > > to the current library/application. If this is not fine-grained enough, > > maybe you should consider moving some code into a separate library (can > > also be a libtool convenience library in case you're using autotools). > > > > Can a property setting be internal? I tried to added to a setter and > apparently nothing happened.
Yes, this should be supported. However, internal header declarations will only vanish from the public header files once the header rework[1] has been completed. Jürg [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/vala-list/2009-January/msg00058.html _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
