Sealed classes - would you want them in D?

Dukc ajieskola at gmail.com
Fri May 11 09:47:39 UTC 2018


On Friday, 11 May 2018 at 04:43:09 UTC, KingJoffrey wrote:
> On Friday, 11 May 2018 at 03:32:25 UTC, Uknown wrote:
>>
>> `private` is for outside the module. Within the module, 
>> private is not applied because D wanted to avoid C++'s 
>> `friend` functions.
>
> 'private' is "meant" to be part of the implementation of 'the 
> class'.
>
> Whereas D makes it part of the implementation of 'the module' ( 
> which is an even higher level of abstraction).
>
> This is an abomination!
>
> A class should have the capacity to protect its 
> attributes/methods - even from the module.

You can use D private with Java-like "only for members functions" 
meaning by putting it alone in it's module, if you want.


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