Code That Says Exactly What It Means

[Kapendev]

On Tuesday, 28 October 2025 at 01:19:27 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> To be fair, it keeps coming up because people (not me!) say 
> they want the feature and the reasons for being opposed to it 
> have never been that great. The people opposed say D’s unit of 
> encapsulation is the module, great, but what you’re really 
> doing is presuming a paradigm of programming that is different 
> from how they want to work. If D advertises itself as a 
> multi-paradigm language that supports object-oriented 
> programming and a bunch of object oriented programmers say they 
> want scopePrivate / privateScope (and several get upset and 
> leave the community), then it doesn’t really come across as 
> that supportive of the paradigm.

D is secretly the **MOST** opinionated language ever made 
#exposed #real

... No memes now, but OOP as a term is overloaded with ideas, so 
you could go on and on about what is missing and what is not in D.