Why is D unpopular

[bauss]

On Monday, 13 June 2022 at 08:49:18 UTC, bauss wrote:
> On Monday, 13 June 2022 at 08:44:59 UTC, bauss wrote:
>> On Monday, 13 June 2022 at 08:07:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>>
>>> But why should that compile? You're trying to manipulate `_c` 
>>> through an instance of `Bar`. It's not visible in any `Bar`, 
>>> ever, so why should it be visible here? It has to be gotten 
>>> at through the interface of `Foo`.
>>
>> Because I'm in the module of a, _c is a member if Foo, Foo is 
>> in a.
>>
>> Thus _c should be accessible within a regardless of whether 
>> it's public within the b module or not.
>
> My argument for why it should work is that if you place the 
> subclass within the same module then it works, so clearly it's 
> just a matter of where the function was called, not where it 
> resides.

Actually I could have worded this better, but hopefully my point 
comes across.