Required Reading: "How Non-Member Functions Improve Encapsulation"

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2017-10-26 08:56, who cares wrote:

> I tend to agree. When a member function can be written with only the 
> public declarations (aka the "public API") it can be set as a free 
> function. However during my youth i've written lots of huge 
> classes...now that i don't write much anymore it's too late to apply the 
> rule :/

In D, protection attributes applies to the module. So if the free 
functions are defined in the same module, it's easy to accidentally 
access private data.

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/Jacob Carlborg