public static : inaccessable due to protection level!?

If a member of one class is public static, what protection level does it have and how can you grant other classes acess to it? I would have expected the public-ness of it to suffice general reading priveleages to any class using the same namespace. What is wrong with my thinking?

Assuming the CLASS is public....nothing is wrong with your thinking....just with your doing...Please post a minimal / compilable snippet of code that exhibits the problem.

Code:

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namespace Logging
{
        public class CQuickLog
        {
                public static string        CLX_LOGFILE        = "Clx_log.txt";
                public static string        PLX_LOGFILE = "Plx_log.txt";
               
                CQuickLog(string sPlatform)
                {
                        //...
                }

        }
}

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and within other class

Code:

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using Logging;

...
CQuickLog m_QuickLog;
...
m_QuickLog = new CQuickLog( CQuickLog.CLX_LOGFILE );

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The access problem is on the constructor, not the static!

Code:

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  string s = CQuickLog.CLX_LOGFILE;  // OK
  CQuickLog ql = new CQuickLog( s);  // Fails

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why? does it assume that the constructor might try to change the value of the string?

WOW, sorry about that. i forgot to make the constructor public. i'm too used to c++.

Just another thought...

Why don't c# ctors default to public? I've always thought of private ctors as just a shady means of enforcing abstractness...

Not at all....Consider the following to enforce parameter checks

Code:

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public class C
{
  private C(int x) {...}
  public static C Build(int x)
  {
      if ((x%2)  == 0) return new C(x) else return null;
  }
}

..elsewhere..
C a = C.Build(3);  // Will return NULL;
C b = C.Build(2);  // Will return an instance;

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disclaimer...not responsible for typos, this is only a sample....