[dmd-beta] D2 2.058 beta

[Walter Bright]

On 2/9/2012 6:24 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> Artificial example (I have a different use case, but the pronciple is
> similar):
>
> interface ILinkedListItem {
>    LinkedListItem next();
>    void next(LinkedListItem v);
> }
>
> LinkedList objectStore;
>
> class C : protected ILinkedListItem {
>    this()
>    {
>      objectStore.add(this);
>    }
>
>    protected LinkedListItem next() {...}
>    protected void next(LinkedListItem v) {...}
> }
>
> So the intent is that you don't have access to these methods from the
> outside, but that C can still implement the interface to pass it only to
> certain receivers (the objectStore list in this case).
>

Wouldn't making ILinkedListItem private do the same thing?