import concerns (was Re: Historical language survey)

[kris]

Derek Parnell wrote:
> 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.
> 

I read it several times; it didn't seem to follow the compiler 
behaviour, which is not any fault of the messenger.