Extending D's support for object-oriented design with private(this)

[monkyyy]

On Friday, 26 April 2024 at 00:36:37 UTC, NotYouAgain wrote:
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> If it is the latter, I don't believe that derision is in the 
> spirit of the guidelines for this forum group.

I aint one for rules, but if your hall monitoring I would think 
accusing others of bad faith is worth twisting the knife. If I 
was being "derisive" I would be commenting on how oo should be 
removed from the language entirely; at minimum.

oo-philes may not understand `alias this` statements, fine, but 
to break down `private alias this this`, `alias this` must use 
old fashioned alias statements so essentially its saying `private 
alias this=this`; given alias this is where the special case 
handling of a struct lives, and my understanding is `private` 
prepending statements is how to break otherwise perfectly good 
code for "safety" so I completely stand by my suggestion.