Module-level accessibility

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/4/10 10:47 CDT, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Monday 04 October 2010 04:41:53 Sergey wrote:
>> Hi bearophile,
>>
>> you've just cheered me up :-) I'll proceed doing my best to get closer to
>> this language.
>> By the way, if it's not difficult for you, could you please clarify the
>> following:
>>
>> 1) what did you mean by "far worse bugs" :-) just several examples
>> 2) Andrei Alexandrescu wrote in his book that it's possible to make
>> non-final methods of interfaces private, and then override them in derived
>> classes. There are even examples in his book that demonstrate this. At the
>> same time, current DMD documentation pretty clear says that nothing
>> private can be overridden.
>
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4542
>
> The current dmd is not entirely in line with TPDL. In almost all cases, however,
> that means that dmd needs to be fixed, so TDPL will be correct. But
> unfortunately, there are things that TDPL says which aren't true yet. This is
> one of them. Another one would be being able to have multiple alias this for a
> single struct or class - right now you're restricted to one. Supposedly, bugs
> which have to do with dmd not matcthing TDPL have TDPL in their name (though
> sometimes they don't), so if you search for TDPL in bugzilla, you should find a
> good chunk of them.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

There is still debate on the matter of private methods in interfaces. 
Please bring up in this forum any additional pro and con arguments that 
you might have.

Andrei