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      Because that object is of a type where that member may or may not exist. That is literally the exact same behaviour as Java or C#.

      If I cast or type check it to make sure it’s of type Bar rather than checking for the member explicitly it still works:

      And when I cast it to Foo it throws a compile time error, not a runtime error: