Simple question about Inheritance

[rws]

In the inherited class, is it possible to hide properties, events, and methods that belong to base class (without editing the base class routines)?

 

[divil]

No. The closest you'll get is the Shadows modifier.

 

[rws]

Too bad. I think it would be a nice feature .

Thanks, divil. Excellent forum.

 

[divil]

I've seen other people ask for this too, I don't know why though. Inheritance is designed so you can extend or replace functionality on a base class, not remove it. If that were the case, you could no longer assume that a derived class has a method that a base class had and things would get very nasty.