[Issue 2051] interfaces should allow private methods

[d-bugmail at puremagic.com]

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2051





------- Comment #3 from andrei at metalanguage.com  2008-04-28 11:15 -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> d-bugmail at puremagic.com wrote:
> > Consider: 
> > 
> > interface Foo
> > {
> >     private void bar();
> > }
> > 
> > class Bar : Foo
> > {
> > }
> > 
> > void main()
> > {
> >     Foo bar = new Bar;
> >     bar.bar;
> > }
> > 
> > This code has a link-time error. Removing "private" yields (correctly) a
> > compile-time error. So we have a bug already :o).
> 
> The error occurs because there's no implementation anywhere, so the 
> vtable can't be completed. I'm assuming you're suggesting that this 
> should be turned into a runtime error if no implementation is present 
> anywhere, but this would be so much harder to update stuff once an 
> interface is updated. I can't see any advantages of making this error 
> runtime.

The rest of my post clarifies my intent, which is not to make the error
runtime.


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