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Watching a video on Pascal's "strict private" scoping has me learning/re-learning that in Dart private members/methods/properties of classes are fully accessible by any code defined in the same file. It's not so private after all. I don't think I'll avoid this though #programming #DartLang #flutter
class Class1 { final String _privateString; final String publicString; Class1(this._privateString, this.publicString); String _privateMethod() => 'You called private method'; String get _privateProperty => 'You got a private property'; } void test1() { final c = Class1('_privateString', 'string'); print(c._privateString); print(c._privateMethod()); print(c._privateProperty); }
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Tim
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Tim
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it looks like the underscore modifier in Dart is more akin to "internal" in C#, meaning it is available for the whole library, but not to external libraries. They don't seem to have a class-scoped access modifier.
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Hank G ☑️
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Yep that’s a great comparison. On Bluesky (I think) someone compared it to the friend class concept in C++ as well. It helps getting around Dart really only having two scopes and it is defined by if there is a leading underscore or not.
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