>Hilmar,
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>I think it is worth noting that Fabio is not using the hidden property directly, as I understand your message, but calling a public method of the class that should return it's own hidden property.
You are right. I hadn't analyzed the code too carefully.
My apologies to Fabio - I should have known that he knows the fundamentals of OOP.
Now it does indeed look like a bug to me. The method in the parent class should see the hidden property.
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