Re: [Vala] Friend class?

[Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>]

On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 08:07 +0100, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 20:36 -0400, Yu Feng wrote:
> > Dear list,
> >
> > Are friend classes available in VALA? If not, are there any particular
> > reason against it, and are there any alternatives for friend classes?
>
> There is no plan to support friend classes in Vala. The `internal'
> modifier is as close as it gets, it restricts access to the class/member
> to the current library/application. If this is not fine-grained enough,
> maybe you should consider moving some code into a separate library (can
> also be a libtool convenience library in case you're using autotools).

Can a property setting be internal? I tried to added to a setter and
apparently nothing happened.

Regards,

Yu
> Jürg