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Subject: Understanding Visibility
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I needed to log some stuff from several tasks in one program. So I wrote a little logging package. I used a package containing several text_io.file_types followed by a protected object to make sure the file operations were not interfered with. 
    However when things were passed through to inside the protected object I found that the file was not taking the information being passed to it. Can anyone explain this to me, as I think the file should be visible.