Crouching Functions Hidden Methods

I'm a little fuzzy on this issue with Blitz.

Is there no way to hide Methods / Functions in BlitzMax from outside the type (i.e. Private Methods / Functions)?

No. A kind of assumed convention seems to be to stick an underscore in front of private fields, guess you could do the same for private methods e.g.

_private_method()

Terabit,

I think you can do this:

Private

Function PrivateFunction()
End Function

Public

Function PublicFunction()
End Function

Thanks for the info. :)

Sorry for the disinfo, Terabit! It's new to me. Has that functionality always been there, Matt?

I don't think you did provide disinfo, John. I tried Matt's code ( because I also believed what you believed ) and it throws a "Syntax error in User Defined Type" error, which is exactly what I thought it would do.

John is quite correct and I think Matt just misunderstood the question.

You can't make individual methods/functions of a type private. You can only make entire types private/public.

you could extend a private type in the public scope of the same code file... I think

I think Matt is correct in what he said although it doesn't answer the original query.

Import "hello_world_private.bmx"
hello()
world()

with hello_world_private.bmx =

Private
Function hello()
	Print "hello"
End Function
Public 
Function world()
	Print "World!"
End Function