Synchronized classes have no public members

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On Tuesday, 13 October 2015 at 06:58:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/5188 
> implements a rule defined in TDPL: synchronized classes shall 
> have no public members.
>
> The motivation behind this limitation is that member accesses 
> in synchronized objects should not occur without some handshake 
> occurring. Public members would make that possible and easy.
>
> Walter and I are on board with this change. However, it is a 
> breaking change so we want to gather a level of community 
> support before we push the button.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

I still have no idea why I would ever use `synchronized` (any 
automatic thread synchronization is harmful in my opinion) so 
change itself is irrelevant. But it may break quite some old 
Java-liked 3d party code for no benefit and that would be 
annoying.