DIP22 - private symbol visibility

[Marco Leise]

Am Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:10:32 +0200
schrieb "Max Samukha" <maxsamukha at gmail.com>:

> On Tuesday, 4 June 2013 at 17:39:05 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
> > http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP22
> 
> "I'd also throw in getting rid of the "protected" access 
> attribute completely, as I've seen debate over that being a 
> useless idea"
> 
> How is that useless? Any non-trivial OOP code 
> (http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qabstractitemview.html#protected-functions) 
> swarm with protected methods, and rightfully so. How would one 
> restrict access to members that are not part of public interface 
> but should be accessible to the derived classes?

On a different note, it could be disallowed on structs if it
is allowed there, to avoid confusion about its effect there.

-- 
Marco