Problem with coupling shared object symbol visibility with protection

[Benjamin Thaut via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 16 February 2015 at 08:08:17 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>
> 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 in fact not a breaking change because export is broken 
anyway. Due to bug 922 export can't be used in cross platform 
libraries. I haven't seen a single library on dub that uses 
export (most likely for exactly that reason).
Also export on windows is broken as well, see Bug 9816.

So making export an attribute would most likely not break 
anything because it already is broken and wouldn't work if you 
tried to use it.