Adding a new design constraint to D

[FeepingCreature]

On Saturday, 18 June 2022 at 07:53:52 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 18 June 2022 at 07:46:27 UTC, FeepingCreature 
> wrote:
>> D is not built around a class-based OOP paradigm. D includes 
>> class OOP as one paradigm
>
> It is breaks with the conventions for «class private». Most, if 
> not all, class-based languages have OOP as a feature and not a 
> paradigm. The inventors stressed that OOP was not a paradigm.

I mean, I think it's important in this case because aiui 
`private` is ignored in modules because modules are the more 
central unit of abstraction than classes; a function in a module 
is "on the same level" as a method in the class. So in that 
specific sense, it's more correct to call D a module-based 
language than a class-based one.

Aside: that's actually important if you consider that certain 
features do not work with class methods!