C style 'static' functions

[Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Am Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:25:18 +0000
schrieb Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] <petar.p.kirov at gmail.com>:


> >
> > Note: not 100% sure of all this, but this is always the way 
> > I've looked at it.  
> 
> You're probably right about the current implementation, but I was 
> talking about the intended semantics. I believe that with DIP45, 
> only functions and global variables annotated with the export 
> storage class would necessary have externally visible symbols.
> 

Yes, this DIP is the solution to have true C-like static functions.
Non-exported private will then be equivalent to C static.

> Also, consider this enhancement request (which I think Walter and 
> Andrei approve of) - 
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13567 - which would be 
> doable only if private functions don't have externally visible 
> symbols.

Can you explain why _object-level visibility_ would matter in this case?

-- Johannes