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Conrad Kirby
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What is the difference between protected and private? Can you read the values of a protected class variable, but not write to it? Or am i completely off track.
Manfred Leonhardt
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Hi Conrad,
Protected: Can be seen (and used) by the class and any subclasses.
Private: Can only be seen by the class.
The accessor modifiers apply the restrictions to reading and writing. Either you see it and can do anything or you don't and can't!
Regards,
Manfred.
Conrad Kirby
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Well thankee kindly! I'll just mosey on back to work!
 
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
 
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