Should protection attributes disambiguate?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On 2011-06-20 17:36, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 6/21/11, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> > That's not necessarily a bug
> 
> Maybe the naming of the issue is wrong, but it has to be a bug:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6180
> 
> If private symbols are not usable, then creating an object of a
> private class type is a pretty major bug, methinks.

Oh, yes. That's a bug. But having two symbols which clash where one is private 
and the other public isn't a bug. It may be a design decision which merits 
revisiting, but as I understand it, it's a natural consequence of the fact 
that access modifiers modify access, not visibility.

- Jonathan M Davis