[Bluej-discuss] private fields of superclass in object inspector

[Dr. Michael Städler]

Hi,

I am a lecturer in business informatics and teach a Java beginners course with BlueJ. I am very happy to have such a pedagocically useful IDE. Just one feature (?) makes me wonder: like my subject says, it's about private fields of superclasses. They are visible in instances of subclasses when I look in the "object inspector". This is in version 2.12 and also in 2.2. Why? Since private fields are not inherited, wouldn't it be better to not show them accordingly?

Regards,

Michael

Michael Städler
staedler at baw-hameln.de