>>>Actually, Erik, I am not so sure that it is a bug. If it is I'd like to know.
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>>It is.
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>>>From the documentation a hidden property is hidden from all objects but
>>>the class itself.
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>>The code that breaks my class is in the class definition itself, not in a subclass, and not in an instance. Since
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>>>It's in the doc. I personally cannot see the point of it since
>>>you cannot "run a class", you always have to create an object based
>>>on it ....
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>>The point is to create a 'clean' interface for your object. If some properties and methods are designed to be used only internally by the class itself, they should not be exposed in the instance or subclass' interface. This was the purpose in the design of Protected and hidden properties, but it seems that something was lost along the way, and the functionality is dysfunctionality.
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>I have not had a chance to check 6.0, have you? I think I recall Jim Booth saying in one of the Dev-Con sessions that it was fixed????
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>Jeff

I tested. It is fixed.