is private broken?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 10/10/17 4:02 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 15:33:30 Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
>> On 10/10/17 3:20 PM, Jonathan Marler wrote:
>>> On windows I was able to compile the following using both dmd.2.075.1
>>> and dmd.2.076.1
>>>
>>>   From what I understand, you shouldn't be able to access private
>>>
>>> fields/methods like this...am I missing something?
>>
>> Before I even read your code, I was pretty sure the error :)
> 
> LOL. Same here. It seems like almost everyone makes this mistake unless they
> caught the information first by doing something like reading the spec
> carefully or reading TDPL. And if you always treat your types as if nothing
> else can access their private members and don't need the equivalent of a C++
> friend function, odds are, that you'll never notice...

Yeah, if you look back far enough in the forums, I'm pretty sure I 
posted a message similar to Mr. Marler's about this shocking revelation :)

-Steve