protected + package attributes

[zodd via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 12:42:57 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
> On 07/11/2016 02:28 PM, zodd wrote:
>> Suppose I have a class with a few protected functions. I want 
>> to let
>> another class from the same package call these functions. Thus 
>> I've
>> added a "package" attribute and got the following:
>> Error: conflicting protection attribute 'package' and 
>> 'protected'
>>
>> How can I achieve what I want? These member functions must be 
>> protected,
>> I can't make them private because this is a base class 
>> intended for
>> inheritance.
>
> Can have only one level of protection. If package is too 
> restrictive with regards to overriding, and protected is too 
> restrictive with regards to calling, then there's only public 
> left.
>
> Other than that, you could add a `package` method with a 
> different name that just calls the `protected` one.

It seems that I have no other choice. Thanks for a suggestion!