Problem with coupling shared object symbol visibility with protection

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On Monday, 16 February 2015 at 08:08:17 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/31/2015 11:52 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
>> @Walter:
>> Making export a attribute seems to be the preferred choice in 
>> this discussion.
>> Additionaly this was the result of the last discussion around 
>> export, a year
>> ago, although for different reasons. The last Discussion 
>> resulted in DIP 45
>> which also proposes making export an attribute. Before I start 
>> with the
>> implementation, would you be ok with making export an 
>> attribute or would you
>> veto it?
>
> At this point I suggest simply making those private helper 
> functions public and export them. It gets your project moving 
> without waiting for language changes (and this is a breaking 
> change).

This is not about some private project but about fixing language 
itself.