Object Oriented Programming with D Language. Private access specifier.

Lars Ivar Igesund larsivar at igesund.net
Thu Aug 21 01:34:29 PDT 2008


Robert Fraser wrote:

> DF wrote:
>> Why can private fields be accessed from other methods or classes in the
>> same module?
>> 
>> If I wanted to access them from the same module I would make them package
>> public.
> 
> It's a feature -- a replacement for "friend" in C++. The general idea of
> a module is that it is an autonomous code unit controlled by a single
> developer/team and if you're accessing a private function in the module,
> you have a good reason to. It's all the same file, so if you're changing
> something that accesses a private member, you can change the private
> implementation as well.
> 
> "package" isn't implemented (sadly -- I find it very useful in Java so
> that a package has only a single public API).

package is implemented to mean that something is accessible to other modules
in the same package.


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