traits getProtection

[Simen Kjærås]

On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:02:20 +0200, deadalnix <deadalnix at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Now, there are a number of people very unhappy about this state of  
>> affairs and
>> want private to hide symbols as well (personally, I think that the fact  
>> that
>> it makes private aliases effectively useless is reason enough to  
>> seriously
>> reconsider the current behavior), but I don't know if there's any real  
>> chance
>> of convincing Walter or not.
>>
>
> This would be a huge mistake. For instance, private method are sometime  
> meant to be overridden in subclasses, which is impossible if symbol is  
> inaccessible.
>
> NVI for instance would be impossible in such a situation.

NVI is perfectly possible with protected.