Public Private members?

[bauss]

On Monday, 15 April 2019 at 19:10:16 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 05:56:31PM +0000, bauss via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Monday, 15 April 2019 at 17:38:15 UTC, Flying-Toast wrote:
>> > I am not sure if this is a bug or if there is some 
>> > explanation for this behavior, but either way it is 
>> > confusing and I think it should cause an Error.
>> > 
>> > ---
>> > class A {
>> >     private {
>> >         public int a;//No Error???
>> >     }
>> > 
>> >     private public string s;//Error, expected
>> > }
>> > ---
>> > 
>> > https://run.dlang.io/is/odJDnA
>> 
>> I would argue that it's indeed a bug.
>
> It's a feature. (Though one that I would rather term as a 
> misfeature, since it makes code needlessly hard to read.)  The 
> main purpose is to allow you to countermand the 'private' 
> inside a large block of private members.
>
>
> T

The feature would have been much more useful if you could do it 
with final tbh.