[Mono-list] How to make a derived method "non-public"

[Nick Drochak]

Fergus,

Thanks for that tip.  It helped me find this C# feature in the language
spec.  For anyone who's interested, especially C# newbies like me, class
members defined this way are called "explicit interface members".  See the
C# Language Specification.doc, section 1.9, Interfaces.

Newbie note: You may have to look closely at the example below.  At first, I
didn't see the qualifier "IHashCodeProvider." in front of the method name.
That turns out to be the whole point! :).

HTH,
Nick


-----Original Message-----
From: Fergus Henderson [mailto:fjh@cs.mu.oz.au]
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 1:44 PM
To: Nick Drochak
Cc: mono-list@ximian.com
Subject: Re: [Mono-list] How to make a derived method "non-public"


On 05-Aug-2001, Nick Drochak <ndrochak@gol.com> wrote:
> I am working on System.Collections.CollectionBase.  I noticed from the MS
> documentation (on MSDN [1]) that they show Clear() and RemoveAt() as
public
> members of the class.  However, the other members from IList [2] are not.
>
> I don't know if my question is about C# or the docs, but is it
syntactically
> (is that a word?) possible to make some of IList members non-public in my
> class that inherits from it?

Yes, it is.  You just define methods named "IList.Foo", "IList.Bar", etc.
Here's an example (using IHashCodeProvider):

	using System.Collections;
	public class Foo : IHashCodeProvider {
		int IHashCodeProvider.GetHashCode(object obj) {
			return 42;
		}
	}

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