Some things to fix

Ary Borenszweig ary at esperanto.org.ar
Thu Jul 30 09:17:53 PDT 2009


Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:04:54 -0400, Ary Borenszweig 
> <ary at esperanto.org.ar> wrote:
> 
>> 1. private applied to structs, classes, etc., doesn't have any effect: 
>> I can access them anyway.
>> 2. modifiers that don't make sense should be disallowed.
>>
>> I think these are pretty serious bugs (specially the first one). Why 
>> new features are added to D and these things are not getting fixed?
> 
> 1 is not a problem unless you are in the same file.  Any 
> classes/functions compiled in the same module are considered to be part 
> of the same module of code, and therefore have access to eachothers 
> private data.  Try accessing same private fields from outside the module.

That's exactly what I'm saying.

---
module one;

private struct Foo {}
---
module two;

import one;

Foo foo;
---

Compiles without errors.



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