Re: How to make a member variable of a derivation read-only?

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From: Jon Skeet
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 00:00

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Noelle.Adam@irisa.fr wrote:

> > Hannes.Heckner@munich.ixos.de wrote:
> >
> > > How can I make foo final in the derivation by OVERLOADING
> > > foo from the Base class?
> >
> > You can't. Variables aren't overridden, they are merely shadowed.
> > (Overloading is something different, by the way.) The Java Language
> > Specification explains this in more detail.
> 
> Yes, what you can do is create an accessor method for a private variable
> and override it in the  descendant class.

That's still not overloading foo. I may be a way round the problem, but 
the specific qusetion "How can I make foo final [...] by overloading foo 
[...]" still has the answer "You can't."

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From: Jon Skeet <skeet@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: How to make a member variable of a derivation read-only?
Date: 2000/03/06
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