wrong Method is private errors
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I wanted to make more use of the private keyword to restrict access to some of my classes methods, but I noticed, that I get a Method '...' is private quite often when (from my knowledge) this should not be the case. I found two different occurrences when I could not access a private method, even when I wanted to call it from the same class I was in:

have a private method in a derived class and overwrite a method from the original class and try to call the private method from the overwritten method
have a static method try to access a private method from the same class

Idk if that's intended, but from my view it's not how private should work. The same applies to private variables

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Severity: Crash
Resolution: Open
Reproducibility: Always
Operating System: Windows 11 x64
Category: General

Steps To Reproduce

class BaseClass {

    void TestMethod() {}

}
class DerivedClass : BaseClass {

    private void ThePrivateMethod() {}

    override void TestMethod() {
        ThePrivateMethod(); // Error, because the Method is private ?
    }

    static DerivedClass FactoryMethod() {
        DerivedClass instance = new DerivedClass();
        instance.ThePrivateMethod(); // Error, because the Method is private ?
        return instance;
    }

}

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LBmaster created this task.Aug 24 2023, 9:32 PM

Geez changed the task status from New to Assigned.Aug 25 2023, 11:37 AM

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wrong Method is private errors
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