private with alias this

[evilrat]

On Tuesday, 25 December 2012 at 06:19:02 UTC, r_m_r wrote:
> i dunno. i'm no D expert either ;-)
>
> BTW its interesting that while the following assertion fails at 
> runtime:
>
> assert(!__traits(compiles, b.bar_));
>
>
> the assertion below executes without errors (as expected):
>
> assert(!__traits(compiles, b.bar_ == 20));
>
>
> regards,
> r_m_r

if it's in the same module than it's valid, code in one module 
can access private stuff within the module, so i think TS may put 
"private alias bar this" and call it from another module, in this 
case it's behaves correctly as the definition hidden by private 
modifier.