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haXe 2 Beginner's Guide

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haXe 2 Beginner's Guide

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Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
haxe 2
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – Declaring some fields


Now, imagine that we want to create a class named Person. Its instances should have a public name field, a private age field, and the class should have a static and public count field.

  1. The first thing we can do is to write it in the following way:

    class Person
    {
       public var name : String; //This one is public
       var age : Int; //This one is private
       public static var count : Int = 0; //This one is static and initialized at 0
    }
  2. On the other hand, we can write it by implementing the Public interface, as follows:

    class Person implements Public
    {
       var name : String; //This one is public
       private var age : Int; //This one is private
       static var count : Int = 0; //And this one is public
    }

What just happened?

These two solutions will result in exactly the same thing:

  • Without implementing Public: When a class does not implement Public, all of its fields are private by default. That's why we have to explicitly write that the name and count properties...