Public Fields

A Public Field may be accessed from outside an Instance or a Class. Note that the default is Private.

Class DomesticParrot has a Name Field which is defined to be Public and Instance (by default).

:Class DomesticParrot: Parrot
    :Field Public Name

    ∇ egg nm
      :Access Public
      :Implements Constructor
      Name←nm
    ∇
    ...
:EndClass ⍝ DomesticParrot

The Name field is initialised by the Class constructor.

      pet←⎕NEW DomesticParrot'Polly'
      pet.Name
Polly

The Name field may also be modified directly:

      pet.Name←⌽pet.Name
      pet.Name
ylloP