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From: Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org>
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Subject: Re: Accessibility of suBclass-fields from suPERclass (reflection)
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 12:31:20 +0200
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On 08/16/2014 10:46 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
>
> Consistent maybe, but why cannot Base access these fields by default?
>
> I'm not complaining about that extra setAccessibility(true), I just
> would like to see an example of where a Base-class accessing its children
> could be a security issue.  I'm not talking of some arbitrary class
> attempting access, but about the target class's parent (or grandparent)
> class.

I think it's an unintended side-effect of language design - 
setters/getters everywhere, variables are evil, use them only locally.

Unintended like, 'protected' means visible to subclasses, noone ever 
mentioned superclass.
So, superclass is treated just as any other class.
I don't think there's any security issue specific to superclass.

Regards...