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[BLUEJ-1055] Stride classes are public, but that isn't apparent

In Stride, we generate all classes with the public access specifier, but we don't show this in the editor. (If you view the generated Java you can check it is public.) In Greenfoot this was much of a muchness: we only support one package, so public, package-private and protected are all the same. But in BlueJ it starts to matter more.

So a few questions and one definite bug:

  • Should we show the public specifier in the class?
  • If it's shown, should it be editable? I think the only allowed specifiers on top-level classes are public or package-private, and we don't support the latter elsewhere in Stride, so I'm not sure we should allow non-public.
  • Regardless of the above choices, Java preview should definitely show public on the class.

Issue metadata

  • Issue type: Bug
  • Priority: Medium