[Gambas-user] Public controls

[Jussi Lahtinen]

Maybe VB compatibility issue..?


Jussi

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Tobias Boege <taboege at ...626...> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I have a history question. I was told there was quite a debate among
> contributors to the Gambas-Buch.de, over whether public controls on a form
> are a good or bad thing.  Personally, I'm by experience a fan of
> information
> hiding, and IIRC I read a statement of Benoit's where he says that there
> are
> no global variables in Gambas because it's poor practice / not OOP.
>
> Now global variables is arguably a different topic as public members, but
> making controls public is a serious violation of information hiding, in
> almost every case, and there is even an option to make all controls public
> by default. Seeing that none of these features is used anywhere in the
> Gambas source tree *except* for [1], my question is:
>
>   Why were these options introduced in the first place? Did users just
>   ask for it often enough?
>
> Also rest assured, I didn't take part in that debate and I'm not fishing
> for
> an authoritative argument here. I'm just curious.
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>
> [1] app/src/gambas3/.src/Help/FHelpBrowser.form:104
>
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