Sealed classes - would you want them in D?

[Dave Jones]

On Wednesday, 16 May 2018 at 16:43:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/16/2018 6:55 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 05/16/2018 04:42 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 16 May 2018 at 08:20:23 UTC, Uknown wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, 16 May 2018 at 07:53:36 UTC, aliak wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Just checked the rust spec [0]. private in rust => 
>>>> accessible from that module and its descendants, which is 
>>>> what package in D is. private in D would be to that module 
>>>> only.
>>>>
>>>> [0]: 
>>>> https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/reference/visibility-and-privacy.html
>>>
>>> Dont know if its been mentioned before but in Delphi / Object 
>>> Pascal private is accessible to everything in the same 
>>> module. Same as D.
>> 
>> This is interesting, thanks for the info.
>
> I had no idea. It's either parallel gestation of a great idea, 
> or they took it from D!

Not sure of the exact timing but we're talking at least 17 years 
ago i think.