struct's fields are all public? no access control?

[12345swordy]

On Friday, 2 April 2021 at 18:33:35 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
> On Friday, 2 April 2021 at 15:56:43 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
> wrote:
>> On 4/2/21 11:42 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>> On Friday, 2 April 2021 at 15:35:03 UTC, mw wrote:
>>>> Is this a compiler bug, or by language design?
>>> 
>>> https://dlang.org/spec/attribute.html#visibility_attributes
>>> 
>>> "Symbols with private visibility can only be accessed from 
>>> within the same module. Private member functions are 
>>> implicitly final and cannot be overridden."
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Key word there being "module".
>>
>> To exapand on this, this is D's answer to "friend" functions 
>> in C++.
>>
>> -Steve
>
> We could introduce "this private", via DIP, but there isn't 
> much motivation behind it as the workaround is define the 
> struct in one module and define the function in another 
> function. The private behave differently from other languages 
> does not seemed to effect many people here.
>
> -Alex

I meant "in another module."

-Alex