static and protection

[David Medlock]

Don Clugston wrote:
<snip>

> On a tangentially related topic:
> Something I'm finding very interesting about D is inner functions.
> I'm finding that lots of things I would have used private class members 
> for, I'm now using nested functions instead, with the result that simple 
> classes sometimes disappear completely.
> 
> With nested functions, you get extremely strong cohesion -- better than 
> is possible in OOP. eg, generally, private class functions aren't 
> completely private in OO languages. They appear in vtables, for example.
> 
> I don't think this programming paradigm has been very well explored yet.
> 

I absolutely agree.  Inner functions are definitely in the top 3 reasons 
I love D.

The code I posted in "Template regexes, version 2" that allows 
backtracking over all possibilities in a regex is a great example of 
their power.

Try doing what my code does without using inner functions.  It will be 
much less readable.

-DavidM