Re: Re: protected methods

Ok, sorry, you said exactly that.  Hadn't had my coffee yet.

On 10/27/06, Bill Keese <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OK, my original mail must have been unclear.  Of course subclasses (or
> whatever you want to call them) can override postMixInProperties().  But
> you'd never have code like this:
>
> var foo = dojo.widget.createWidget(...)
> foo.postMixInProperties();
>
> If we were programming in java or C++ then we would make
> postMixInProperties() protected.  There's no native javascript support
> for that (also, btw, dojo.defineWidget() doesn't support private
> variables) but the API doc would be a lot nicer if it didn't list
> postMixInProperties() as though it were a method that widget users (as
> opposed to widget writers) could use.
>
> Adam L. Peller wrote:
> > ok, I'll bite... as long as we chain up, why can't we override these?
> > postMixInProperties seemed like a good place to do overrides, for
> > example.  Or is there just a concern that people won't chain up?
> >
> > On 10/27/06, Bill Keese <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> By the way, I found some good examples of protected methods (or to be
> >> pedantic, methods that subclasses override but that users aren't
> >> supposed to call):
> >>
> >> postMixInProperties()
> >> fillInTemplate()
> >> postCreate()
> >> onResized()
> >>
> >> etc.
> >>
> >> We can't very well start putting underscores in front of those method
> >> names now.  It would be nice if we had some way to notate their status
> >> to the parser though, so those functions showed as a different color or
> >> something.
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