Vtable for virtual functions in D

[Mike Franklin]

On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 at 22:02:17 UTC, sarn wrote:

> When I wrote Xanthe a year ago, I rolled my own classes using 
> alias this and explicit vtables:
> https://gitlab.com/sarneaud/xanthe/blob/master/src/game/rigid_body.d#L15
> (I did this because normal D classes use the druntime library, 
> and Xanthe was an experiment in not using the D runtime at all.)

I'm curious about this comment in the code:

> Unfortunately, "protected" doesn't work, so a lot of members 
> end up being public.  This seems to just be an oversight in the 
> language, so maybe it will change in future versions of D.

What specifically do you think should be changed in the language 
to support your idea?

Thanks,
Mike