Mixins for GC-Flexibility?

[Bill Baxter]

genie wrote:
> I tried ref counting and it worked quite well. One thing puzzled me,
> however - when I declared a destructor for a class to be protected, I
> could still call delete on an object of this class - something that
> you can't do in C++ - is it the expected behaviour of D or just a bug
> in the compiler?

Read what the attributes actually mean here:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/attribute.html#deprecated

In particular, everything in a module acts like a 'friend' with 
everything else in that module.

--bb