import concerns (was Re: Historical language survey)

[Derek Parnell]

On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 15:18:42 +1000, kris <foo at bar.com> wrote:

> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Brad Roberts wrote:
> [snip]
>>> How much begging would it take to try for a release or two having  
>>> private symbols invisible to the importer?  It's really much more  
>>> intuitive, imho.  I haven't looked at this part of the front end code,  
>>> but if it's easy, feel free to make it controllable via a compiler  
>>> option just for the experiment's time frame.
>>   The problems happen when one has:
>>  void foo(int x);
>> private void foo(long x);
>>  So the first foo is found, then overload rules apply, and the second  
>> foo is selected.
>
>
> So, in D, what does private actually mean? The verbose version if you  
> wouldn't mind, with all known corner-cases noted?
>
> I think the full explanation would help a lot, since it's often easier  
> to remember the things one should not do, rather than those one should.

That why I wrote http://www.users.bigpond.com/ddparnell/attr.html but no  
one has bothered to comment it yet - including Walter whom I explicitly  
asked to.

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia