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On Wednesday, 9 September 2015 at 10:00:10 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> On Wednesday, 9 September 2015 at 06:13:59 UTC, Dominikus 
> Dittes Scherkl wrote:
>> IMHO "friend" is a misconception, that is only there to 
>> compensate for the lack of modules in C++.
>
> It can be useful. Say you have a database engine module and an 
> ORM module, you might want to give the ORM special privileges 
> to certain parts of the database engine, but shield it from the 
> rest of the program.

That's what the `package` access modifier is for.