C style 'static' functions

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 7/19/17 8:16 AM, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 at 12:11:38 UTC, John Burton wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 at 12:05:09 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>>> Try a newer compiler, this was fixed recently.
>>
>> Hmm it turns out this machine has 2.0.65 on which is fairly ancient. 
>> I'd not realized this machine had not been updated.
>>
>> Sorry for wasting everyones' time if that's so, and thanks for the help.
> 
> Just for the record, private is the analog of C's static. All private 
> free and member functions are callable only from the module they are 
> defined in. This is in contrast with C++, Java, C# where private members 
> are visible only the class they are defined in.

I'm not so sure of that. Private functions still generate symbols. I 
think in C, there is no symbol (at least in the object file) for static 
functions or variables.

You could still call a private function in a D module via the mangled 
name I believe.

-Steve

Note: not 100% sure of all this, but this is always the way I've looked 
at it.