Flash AS3 - Internal namespace modifier

Question

Hi,

I am working on a library that I wish to hide the internals of to the outside world.

I figured I can use 'internal class' where ever I wanted to hide the class,

How ever to my understanding, declaring a class in namespace test.NS1 means it can only access classes defines in test.NS1 and nothing else.

For example,

(both in the same library)

/src/NS/test.as - internal class
/src/NS/test2/test2.as - internal class

test / test2 cannot see each other. Am I missing something here? or is there no proper way to hide my internal classes yet let them talk within the library ?

Answer 1

The namespace "internal" restricts access to classes defined within the same package. Therefore, a class com.mycompany.app.Foo can see the internal class com.mycompany.app.Bar, but not com.mycompany.app.data.Baz.

See http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flex/201/langref/statements.html#internal