Code That Says Exactly What It Means

[Peter C]

On Sunday, 26 October 2025 at 14:55:07 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
>
> This has been proposed and rejected many times. In D private is 
> for the module. This is intentional.
>
> -Steve

btw. just for interest sake if nothing else... Swift's 'privacy 
saga' is a neat case study in how language design collides with 
developer expectations.

In the end, developers mental model of 'classes as encapsulation 
units' was too entrenched for the Swift design team to ignore.

Mental models can be really hard to change.

https://swiftunwrapped.github.io/episodes/4e7ad642/