Notes on Defective C++

[Walter Bright]

bearophile wrote:
> 1) No compile time encapsulation: "In naturally written C++ code,
> changing the private members of a class requires recompilation of the
> code using the class." I think D solves this problem, you only have
> to compile the module the contains the class (generally a module
> contains related classes/functions).

D doesn't solve this problem. Changing the private members changes 
offsets of other members and derived classes, so they must all be 
recompiled. Inline functions are also, of course, affected.

The way to avoid this is to use interfaces.