Bug or Feature?

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

It's a bug. Private members are not supposed to be visible in other modules.
If it isn't already filed in bugzilla, it should.
We'd much appreciate if you filed a bug for the bugs you find:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/.

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Mathias Laurenz Baumann
<mathias.baumann at sociomantic.com> wrote:
> G'day
>
> I was wondering whether the following is a bug in dmd or a feature in D:
>
> module a:
>
> class TClass ( T )
> {
> }
>
> class Foo
> {
>        private struct Test
>        {
>        }
> }
>
>
> module b:
>
> import a;
>
> class Bar : TClass!(Foo.Test)
> {
> }
>
>
> void main()
> {
>        auto var = new Bar;
> }
>
>
> dmd a.d b.d
>
>
> This works for me, no compilation errors. Why can module b access Foo.Test
> for the template parameter?
>
>
>
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