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When is 'protected' useful for a method or member?

 

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Question:

When should a method be declared protected?

Answer:

It tells the users of your class that you do not want them to access those properties or methods and that they need to be careful when doing it.


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2006-08-21, 08:05:44
anonymous from Belgium  
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outside of the unit where it is declared, a protected method is only accessible by derived classes.

you generally have to be careful about using such a method but that's not the main point of declaring it 'protected'.

 

 

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