Why does a private implementation of ICloneable work?

[cmay]

Can someone explain why you can implement ICloneable with a private
function and it works?

e.g.

Imports System
Public Class BusinessObject
Implements ICloneable

Private Function privateClone() As Object Implements
ICloneable.Clone
Dim MyClone As Object = makeClone()
Return MyClone
End Function

End Class

Does that fact that the Clone is public on ICloneable mean that the
"private" above is ignored when the object is being dealt with as type
ICloneable?

 

[Alvin Bruney - ASP.NET MVP]

The modify tag, private, does not apply to the compiler. It is capable of
calling the method. The tag is applicable only to calling code.

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[Patrice]

IMO it is still called throught IClonable.Clone which is public and that in
turns call the private function.

Lutz Reflector should help to find out what goes on behind the scene :
http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/