Bug? package attribute half working on child packages.

Jarrett Billingsley jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com
Sun Mar 15 16:11:02 PDT 2009


On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Jeremie Pelletier <jeremiep at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know if it's really a bug, but the package protection attribute seems to have a different semantic in the current packages than in nested packages.
>
> For example, say you have the module test which declares the following:
> ---
> module test.Foo;
>
> package uint myVar;
> package class MyClass {}
>
> package void MyFunc();
>
> class Foo {
>    package void MyFoo();
> }
> ---
>
> All declarations are accessible from any module in the test package, but if you try and access them from a child package, say test.somepackage.Foo, then only myVar and MyClass are accessible, both MyFunc and Foo.MyFoo says they aren't accessible from test.somepackage.Foo.
>
> I'm using the latest DMD version 2.
>

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2529

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