Static members and access attribute

[Bruno Medeiros]

Sergey Gromov wrote:
> Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:05:00 +0100,
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> Uriel wrote:
>>> I've found some strange behaviour with static members and haven't noticed anything about it in the documentation.
>>>
>>> module a;
>>>
>>> class A
>>> {
>>>     private static int Foo;
>>> }
>>>
>>> import std.stdio;
>>>
>>> import a;
>>>
>>> void main()
>>> {
>>>     A.Foo = 1;
>>>     writeln(A.Foo);
>>>
>>> /*    
>>>     A obj = new A();
>>>     obj.Foo = 2;
>>>     writeln(A.Foo);
>>> */
>>> }
>>>
>>> Program will compile and print '1'. But if uncomment the second part of code compiler will say that "class a.A member Foo is not accessible".
>>> Is this a bug?
>> No, Foo is private, so you can't access it outside of the module where 
>> it is defined (module a).
> 
> Of course it's not a bug that the commented-out part fails.  It's a bug 
> that the first part of main() works.

Ah, duh, didn't notice that part, I agree.

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Developer, MSc. in CS/E graduate
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