Classes - What is 'strict private'? Private not so private!

[@silvercoder70]

What do you think about the differences between private and strict private? Let's discuss! Don’t forget to share this with your fellow Pascal programmers. 😊

[@daShare]

I switched to using strict private in my classes by default a few years ago. It's helped prevent accidental direct access of things from other classes.

[@hgrabows]

I just tried this in Dart and it has the same behavior. Any function, even bare functions or ones in classes with no inheritance have access to private methods/members/properties of classes defined in the same file. I don't think about the private members that way and wouldn't use them that way but that is interesting.

[@silvercoder70]

Hi. My understanding is that it is object pascal way of adding friendship - that idea from c++. But it can catch the beginner off guard if not aware of this.