From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id BAA26008; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 01:53:19 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA25694 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 01:53:18 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from athlon.baretta.com ([62.211.4.94]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g6KNnRj15834 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 01:51:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from baretta.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.baretta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434F1273C4; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 01:54:17 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3D39F829.6060307@baretta.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 01:54:17 +0200 From: Alessandro Baretta Organization: Baretta srl -- www.baretta.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 X-Accept-Language: it, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dmitry Bely , Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Protected methods References: <3D369B89.1030000@baretta.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Dmitry Bely wrote: > Do not private Ocaml methods have in fact "protected" C++ semantics? They > cannot be called directly but can be used in methods of inherited > classes... > > - Dmitry Bely I thought so, too. I made several atttempts, and the compiler seemed to reject all of them. Let me see if I can cook up a quick example. # class a = object method private m : unit = (new a) # m end;; The expression "new a" has type a = < > but is used with type < m : unit; .. > Only the second object type has a method m Alex ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners