Code That Says Exactly What It Means

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Sunday, 26 October 2025 at 06:33:11 UTC, Peter C wrote:
> Among D developers, the idea of adding a new visibility 
> attribute like scopeprivate often meets with scepticism. After 
> all, D already has private for module-level encapsulation and 
> package for sharing across sibling modules. And if you really 
> want to lock a class down, you can always put it in its own 
> module. So why bother?
>
> [...]

This has been proposed and rejected many times. In D private is 
for the module. This is intentional.

-Steve