DIP16: Transparently substitute module with package

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:23:32 -0400, Chris NS <ibisbasenji at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm pretty impressed with the idea, and look forward to its  
> implementation, but I do have one question.  How does this affect (if at  
> all) the implicit "friend" relationship of declarations?  Since package  
> "foo.bar" is treated as a single module, do the classes in  
> "foo/bar/alpha.d" and "foo/bar/beta.d" have access to each other's  
> private members?
>
> I'm not sure whether I favor them losing or keeping their "friend"  
> status.

They would lose their friend status.  Classes that you need to be  
"friends" would have to go into the same submodule, which makes perfect  
sense to me.

-Steve