Is public by default an unsafe default?

[Dukc]

On Thursday, 2 May 2024 at 11:45:57 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> It's sensible - that's how C works after all.
>
> Of course, there is no protection against other code making a 
> declaration manually, but I think technically even in D you can 
> access private symbols over their mangled name.

I think that would, or could fail to work because the compiler 
does not necessarily add the private symbol to the export table 
of an object file. The linker would then fail to find it.