Proposed improvements to the separate compilation model

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On Tuesday, 5 March 2013 at 20:47:11 UTC, Rob T wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 March 2013 at 20:40:41 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
> wrote:
>>
>> Also, I don't think that we should consider that a class 
>> declaration is the same thing as the class interface - for the 
>> simple reason that a class declaration must also contain 
>> private fields and methods. Having to recompile half of my 
>> program just because of a signature change in a class's 
>> private method makes no sense, and is the reason why hacks 
>> like PImpl emerged.
>
> Yes I fully agree with that point. D should be adjusted to 
> solve the problem since it makes working on large projects much 
> more practical.
>
> --rt

That I agree for sure, too. That may be not that trivial, but it 
is a big whole in abstraction model of C++-like languages.